Example sentences of "[v-ing] him at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but waking him at three months ' old |
| 2 | Jacob 's taking advantage of his father 's blindness and frailty , and his deceiving him at one of the most solemn moments of his life , are reminiscent of the shame and humiliation brought to Noah by his son Ham . |
| 3 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , Matt , ’ she would say , calling him at two or three in the morning , her voice hoarse with the cigarettes she chain-smoked . |
| 5 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 6 | He was just over three hours late to meet his guide , locating him at last on the edge of a ruck of Army drivers , forlorn in Air Force blue . |
| 7 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 8 | When she played , charging him at full speed , she would often knock him over but always retracted her claws , which , when used for hunting in the wild , can tear a wild pig or deer apart . |
| 9 | One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked . |
| 10 | She was n't disturbing him at all , said Dyson , swinging round in his chair and resting his elbow comfortably on the stacks of unsubbed copy and uncorrected proofs . |
| 11 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 12 | Why risk seeing him at all ? |
| 13 | I am sorry to confess that I did not look forward to seeing him at all . |
| 14 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , Thiercelin , ’ said Epitot , spotting him at last . |
| 16 | ( He would not be among strangers ; among those preceding him at that limbo for disgraced generals were the unfortunate Bapst , de Bonneval and Chretien . ) |
| 17 | As she glared at him , almost hating him at that moment , he suddenly grinned , and her anger evaporated . |
| 18 | He just left the remark hanging in the air and she stared after him , the eyes never leaving him at all . |
| 19 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 20 | William Hill are more optimistic about Scudamore 's chances , quoting him at 4–9 . |
| 21 | The rectangular piece of perspex which acted as a windscreen , provided little if any protection from the cold wind which was currently hitting him at sixty miles an hour . |