Example sentences of "[pers pn] at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardy 's short but effective poem ‘ She at his funeral ’ , accompanying illustration . |
| 2 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 5 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 6 | I took him at his word . |
| 7 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 8 | I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's power enough , ’ agreed Watt , taking him at his word . |
| 10 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 11 | She would take him at his word . |
| 12 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 13 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 14 | The government should take him at his word . |
| 15 | My son took him at his word and went into travel for three years . |
| 16 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 17 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 18 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 19 | The villagers , however , took him at his word , only too willing to dump their scruffy-arsed offspring on him between the hours of ten and five . |
| 20 | He seemed to think she should simply take him at his word . |
| 21 | He gave up his £60 pension money but the men continued to torture him at his home in Basingstoke , Hants . |
| 22 | Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 23 | Rock manager turned film maker Billy Gaff says that Britt spent her 50th birthday in October with him at his home near Dublin . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As Glass prepared for his forthcoming European tour , Simon Jones talked to him at his home in Greenwich Village about rhythm , transcendence and his dad 's record store . |
| 26 | She was introduced to the novelist Mr Henry James , and took tea with him at his home , Lamb House , in Rye , and he thought that she was all the beautiful American girls he had written about rolled into one ! |
| 27 | Then I went to see him at his home in Wimbledon and , as we were talking , he gradually got into the Frank Spencer character . |
| 28 | Even so the men who stole a hundred pounds from him at his home in Witney still felt the need to punch and kick him and beat him with a wooden club . |
| 29 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 30 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |