Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 2 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 3 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 4 | I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem . |
| 5 | It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again . |
| 6 | And though you might not intend to sell him again at the moment , circumstances can change : a horse with a stable vice is always harder to sell than one without , unless he is so fantastically talented that his behaviour can be ignored . |
| 7 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 8 | We have to pick him up at midday . ’ |
| 9 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 10 | As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’ |
| 11 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 12 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 13 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 14 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 15 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 16 | Deport Peter Schmichael for having an out of date work permit , let Scumtona and Hughes run off to the Cayman Islands for a peaceful life together , Ryans potty training to let him down at home games as well as away , Lee Sharpe to OD on E and think he 's playing for the best team in the country . |
| 17 | It begins with the dead body being moved into the sun as the sun used to awaken him both at home and in the trenches , in France . |
| 18 | With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation . |
| 19 | Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all . |
| 20 | I got leave to see him off at Euston . |
| 21 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 22 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 23 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 24 | What is likely to strike us , however , is the compliment that Pound pays us ; his courteous confidence in our disinterestedness , our patience and eagerness , and our capacity to experience what is on the page before us , whether in French or English , without needing to have him constantly at our elbows , nudging us and crying , ‘ Ca n't you see ? ’ |
| 25 | I hope Bill 's genealogical researches are progressing — I did n't manage to ask him yesterday at Catherine 's leaving party . |
| 26 | The problem about Shakespeare for critics of his mind-set is that to take him seriously at all is to accept an alien agenda . |
| 27 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 28 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 29 | And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere . |