Example sentences of "[pers pn] at his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am . |
| 2 | Li Shai Tung sat back in his chair , looking about him at his fellow T'ang . |
| 3 | Deputy McDaid had given alibi evidence at Clarke 's successful challenge to an extradition order and was photographed with him at his homecoming celebrations in Letterkenny . |
| 4 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |
| 5 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 6 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 7 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |
| 8 | Duke of Monmouth , following in Oh So Risky 's footsteps , won last year 's Triumph Hurdle and will get the strongly-run race and fast ground so necessary to see him at his best . |
| 9 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 10 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 11 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 12 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 14 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 15 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 16 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 17 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 18 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | More and more it came to be used in relations between states which were not themselves French-speaking : in 1664 the new imperial ambassador to England addressed Charles II in it at his first audience and in 1677 the king of Denmark , when addressed by a Polish ambassador in Latin , replied to him in French . |
| 24 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 25 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |
| 26 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 27 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 28 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 29 | The Prince did n't even wait for an answer but turned to a small table beside him , slopped two goblets full of wine , rose and thrust them at his unwanted guests . |
| 30 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |