Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] he at " in BNC.

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1 Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London .
2 A GAMES player shot his lodger after beating him at chess .
3 CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game .
4 He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking .
5 She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely .
6 Instead of telephoning him at work to blame or to demand attention for herself , she responded to the emergency and visited the office with soup and sandwiches to keep them all going through the evening .
7 A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July .
8 They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say .
9 Farquhar , unhurt apart from a huge lump on his head , bandaged Lachlan 's wounds quickly before joining him at the oars .
10 OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday .
11 Paulinus preached and baptized in the dependent territory of Lindsey and his activities there — and in Bernicia , if Bede is correct in placing him at Yeavering — serve to delineate where Eadwine had most effective control outside Deira .
12 Cross-examined by William Dunlop , defending , Mr O'Donnell agreed that it was possible one of the men had not become involved in attacking him at the quarry .
13 The South African Grand Prix at Kyalami was also won by Lauda but Hunt came close to catching him at the end , losing by just over a second .
14 I am sorry to confess that I did not look forward to seeing him at all .
15 1.74 It is now clear from Ollett v Bristol Aerojet Ltd [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 1197 that the substance of an expert 's report , which the rules require the parties to disclose as a condition precedent to calling him at trial , includes his opinion , which is , after all , the whole reason for calling him .
16 He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham .
17 And Francois-Poncet , on succeeding him at the Academie :
18 You got ta , se when you go up on the scales you 've got ta er say eight ten to ma he carried two pound overweight so you 've got ta put him at the scale and then the end of , the governor relies on the travel head lad to do this , the same as I 'm head man at home .
19 It 's gon na cost him at least fifteen quid for me to wipe it off .
20 She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was .
21 " I tell you what — I do n't think I can do any more by seeing him at the moment , but I think you should cut out his meat completely for a week or two .
22 She recognised this and took care to build up his self-confidence by involving him at every stage of the planning for the move .
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