Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] at his " in BNC.
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1 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
2 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
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 | I mean , now he 's got me at his mercy , he 's not going to do what anyone would expect . |
5 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
6 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
7 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
8 | The devil , or alternatively the giant , Wade , is supposed to have scooped out the hole during a quarrel with a neighbour , and thrown it at his adversary . |
9 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
10 | The man in question , one of those footmanly types , Twit ( first class ) — pencil thin spray-on hair and pained costive expression — was , as they would have put it at his public school , ‘ being ragged ’ by rough children from the village . |
11 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |