Example sentences of "[prep] him at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 2 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
| 3 | Frank Cole of the Daily Telegraph wrote of Chapman : ‘ If you sat near him at a big match … you realized the intense earnestness of the man . |
| 4 | I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material . |
| 5 | She would be responsible for integrating the two contributions and making sure it will be a coherent whole and she would share her royalty with him at a rate to be determined by the proportion of the work each ends up doing . |
| 6 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 7 | Damon and Rebecca fell in love and wed after she paid £300 for a date with him at a charity auction in California . |
| 8 | When we got him out of here , a couple of the boys had a cuppa with him at a caff down the road . |
| 9 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 10 | Shultz had put his arm round him at a party and told him what a remarkable job he had done , keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive : ‘ I knew what he meant . |
| 11 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 12 | In Nicholson v. Harper ( 1895 ) A owned some goods stored for him at a warehouse . |
| 13 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 14 | In the morning he had woken with energy racing through him at a pace too uneven to harness . |
| 15 | Some time later I found myself next to him at a dining-club . |
| 16 | A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | I can get around him at a pinch , but roll over him , never . ’ |