Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ever since Courtney indecently assaulted her at his Harley Street clinic in October last year , the girl known to the jury as Miss C has been having nightmares about the attack . |
| 4 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 5 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 6 | Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 9 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 10 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 13 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 14 | Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 15 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 16 | ‘ Laid him at his enemy 's mercy . |
| 17 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 18 | I took him at his word . |
| 19 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 20 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 21 | My son took him at his word and went into travel for three years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 24 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He felt it at his face and his fingers and his back and his arms , felt it at his buttocks and privates and thighs . |
| 29 | He felt it at his face and his fingers and his back and his arms , felt it at his buttocks and privates and thighs . |
| 30 | Again , he was deeply drawn to it , he loved it like a woman and wore it at his side . |