Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 2 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 3 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 4 | I consoled him at my breast when he wept . |
| 5 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 6 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 7 | I took him at his word . |
| 8 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male . |
| 10 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 11 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 12 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 13 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 14 | Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg . |
| 15 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 16 | Did you see him at his party . |
| 17 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 18 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 19 | Even the call asking her to see him at his office had been made by a secretary . |
| 20 | Naylor butted in , and , staring at him , Leith could see , where no one else could , that he was daring her to contradict him at her peril . |
| 21 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |