Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 2 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 3 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 4 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 7 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 8 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 9 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 11 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 12 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 13 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 14 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 15 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 16 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 17 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 18 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 19 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 20 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 21 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 22 | A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’ |
| 23 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 24 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
| 25 | Then I went to see him at his home in Wimbledon and , as we were talking , he gradually got into the Frank Spencer character . |
| 26 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 27 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 28 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 29 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 30 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |