Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] him at the " in BNC.

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1 The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire .
2 She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived .
3 We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant .
4 But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment .
5 Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked .
6 Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus .
7 The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’
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