Example sentences of "[to-vb] him at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey was asked to meet him at dinner in Magdalene before the meeting and to second the vote of thanks in the Guildhall . |
| 2 | Two , he could go along with Marler , pretend to accept him at face value , and this way he could keep an eye on him . |
| 3 | " She only agreed to it because I used to know him at school . " |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll understand that I 'm loath to set him at liberty without some guarantee . |
| 5 | Grunte had written back to say that he would be delighted , and to expect him at mid-day . |
| 6 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 7 | We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’ |
| 8 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 9 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 10 | The Camel Benetton Ford driver was outraged at the tactics used by Senna to keep him at bay for several laps . |
| 11 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 12 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 13 | In reality , the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch , a 50-year-long saga of crossed purposes — with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 14 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 15 | Little wonder he saw some fresh sport in the pursuit of someone like Shannon , who was single-mindedly determined to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , her desire to keep him at arm 's length dwindling to nothing . |
| 17 | Unable to avoid it , however , he faced O'Rourke in New Orleans where it became apparent that the Irishman had no idea of fighting ; Burke was able to hit him at will . |
| 18 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 19 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , give my love to cousin George and say we 'll expect to see him at Cumbermound for the show on Sunday . |
| 21 | What was required to hold him at bay was constant vigilance . |
| 22 | But would the pain of losing him be any the less simply because she 'd managed to hold him at bay ? |
| 23 | Mr Major sent his chief policy adviser Sarah Hogg to represent him at No 11 while he tucked in to shepherd 's pie and Krug champagne at the Archers ' riverside flat . |
| 24 | In Cable v Dallaturca ( 1977 ) 121 SJ 795 , the defendant who deliberately withheld an expert 's report was given leave to call him at trial but was deprived of half the costs of the hearing . |
| 25 | No , I mean he rang , I was supposed to ring him at home though . |
| 26 | Before he had finished he had become manager 's clerk at the Newcastle branch and the bank had offered to sponsor him at university . |
| 27 | For years she has been complaining ‘ I never see anything of you , darling ’ and ‘ Why ca n't you spend a little more time with the family ? ’ — so naturally he expects her to be delighted to have him at home . |
| 28 | ‘ There is n't a man in Britain who would be able to touch him at lightweight or light middleweight , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Because Kate , for all her faults real and imagined , was the only person ever to take him at face value . |