Example sentences of "[verb] him at his " 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 | Nick , six , of Bradford , hopes to meet him at his Leeds gig . |
| 3 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 4 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 5 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 6 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 7 | Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews . |
| 8 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 9 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 10 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 11 | Horowitz At Home is the master 's very last recording , capturing him at his most relaxed , when here he is playing in his drawing-room on his own favourite Steinway . |
| 12 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 13 | And even if ‘ Un sospiro ’ and the second of his two versions of ‘ La campanella ’ are slightly less distinguished , the three Hungarian Rhapsodies again show him at his most elegantly eloquent , as well as brilliant . |
| 14 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 15 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 16 | Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am . |
| 17 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 18 | Did you see him at his party . |
| 19 | Cortot 's Barcarolle ( his only recording of one of Chopin 's greatest masterpieces ) was once described by a French critic as ‘ un rituel erotic-passionel ’ and it is indeed as insinuating as it is blisteringly intense , even though the hectic rush through the final pages shows him at his least eloquent . |
| 20 | The Second Concerto , heard in Cortot 's own arrangement or refurbishment with some marginal re-texturing here and there , shows him at his most excitingly rhetorical . |
| 21 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 22 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 23 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 24 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 25 | They forced him across the pitch they forced him onto his right-hand side Collimore which is n't his best side and they 've managed t they 've managed to frustrate him at his shooting at a distance . |
| 26 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 27 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 28 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 29 | She would take him at his word . |
| 30 | The government should take him at his word . |