Example sentences of "[vb past] to him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 2 | The girl came to him at once , her face a reflection of his own , eyes wide , her teeth biting on her lip . |
| 3 | According to Florence of Worcester , shortly after Æthelred died in April 1016 certain English churchmen and nobles elected Cnut king , came to him at Southampton , swore fid-elity and repudiated all Æthelred 's progeny ; in return , he vowed to be a good lord in matters both church and lay . |
| 4 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 5 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 6 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That confidence was echoed by Peter Scudamore when I spoke to him at Towcester yesterday . |
| 9 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 10 | Both of them wrote to him at school , and Rudd remembers selling the foreign stamps off their letters to buy The Autocar . |