Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] him at " in BNC.

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1 His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl .
2 She knew Archie Cousins was a loafer whose sharp nose pointed him at everything except honest toil .
3 I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’
4 He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop .
5 He shook his head , hardly able to bear the thought of what they were paying out to have his antique father-in-law insult him at mealtimes .
6 His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter .
7 When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious .
8 He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree .
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