Example sentences of "[vb past] him at [pron] " 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 ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’
4 She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’
5 Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews .
6 Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg .
7 You must deploy Mr Bargepole equipped with a pair of electrodes and a can of Aqua Regia in the MD 's office of United Newspapers and not let him at it until he has secured your reprieve .
8 I consoled him at my breast when he wept .
9 Nobody recognised him at his true value .
10 She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands .
11 The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota .
12 I heard him at it several times , pretending to joke his daughter , but in fact making her the butt of his mockery .
13 In quick strides , he came forward , scooped the child from the ground and thrust him at her .
14 Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’
15 Laid him at his enemy 's mercy .
16 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 .
17 I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ?
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 The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man .
28 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 .
29 Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy .
30 Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’
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