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

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1 We do need someone like him , but fuck England — I want him at Leeds .
2 It may be significant that Rose was working for Henry Compton [ q.v. ] , bishop of London , in 1675 , for it was Compton who , in the words of Stephen Switzer [ q.v. ] , was London 's ‘ great Encourager ’ , employing him at Fulham Palace .
3 I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet .
4 Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode .
5 His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east .
6 Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return .
7 ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late .
8 In June 1860 he invited William , the Prince Regent of Prussia , to meet him at Baden , whose Grand Duke agreed to act as host .
9 Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it .
10 I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst .
11 Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth .
12 Especially now that his grandfather is no longer as robust as he once was , and needs him at Arrancay . ’
13 The squire who was sent south to carry the good news to King Henry overtook him at Daventry on the 20th of September .
14 There were signs that Waterloo Boy was past his best for the season and those were emphasised when Katabatic easily beat him at Cheltenham in April .
15 When sentencing him at Oxford Crown Court today , Judge Leo Clarke described it as a motiveless and shocking attack .
16 Judge Peter Greenwood told him at Chelmsford Crown Court : ‘ You are a dangerously sick man . ’
17 When his wife ( Pat Heywood ) meets him at John o' Groats , they do not speak at all or , if they do , we can not hear them as if they were already far away .
18 A film crew interviewed him at Parkeston Quay and also met a number of prominent industrialists in the area .
19 He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset .
20 I was n't allowed to visit him at Croisset .
21 ‘ I 've seen him at Liverpool in the players ’ lounge .
22 He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away .
23 He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes .
24 Harvey Thorneycroft , Hunter 's Northampton colleague , replaces him at Leicester , and there is a change on the other wing caused by the withdrawal of French centre Franck Mesnel with a twisted knee .
25 We played the match and won , and just before saying goodbye I said I 'd see him at Birkdale .
26 The decision had cheered him up ; the bustle created by his demands reaffirmed the show of his importance ; and he could still feel a breeze from the pure air which had wreathed him at Hause Point .
27 She travelled to hear him at Kirkcudbright next evening , and to other meetings after that .
28 And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ?
29 Every evening I 'd return from school , do my chores and my homework ( and smoke five Woodbines ) , then meet him at Corporation Street baths at 5.30 .
30 ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’
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