Example sentences of "[prep] he at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 2 | But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant . |
| 3 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 4 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 5 | This is , however , a rare instance of Anderson displaying any interest in McKendrick and the change in his attitude towards him at the end of the play is confirmed in the figures for his turn-allocation . |
| 6 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 7 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 8 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 9 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |
| 10 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 11 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 12 | How convenient that Devlin was playing piano there although there was no sign of him at the moment . |
| 13 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 14 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 16 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 17 | Not only have the people never voted for the Prime Minister at the ballot box : they have consistently and persistently voted against him at the ballot box . |
| 18 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 19 | David 's not a man for leaving work behind him at the end of the day . |
| 20 | The hearing admitted he had only agreed to appear in court if his wife and children were flown back to Britain with him at the cost of £4,000 . |
| 21 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 22 | If it is a very large contract then it may be reasonable for the builder to ask for interim payments as the work progresses , and you can discuss this with him at the outset . |
| 23 | His dad was with him at the race , but he could n't find him and gave the grenade to a marshal . |
| 24 | ‘ Yet you were with him at the presentation . ’ |
| 25 | So I made a date with him at the base . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I was n't entirely open with him at the Archdeacon 's meeting . |
| 27 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 28 | It 's just that — well , last night I was having a drink with him at the Dragon . ’ |
| 29 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 30 | She was going out with him at the beginning of this term |