Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was close enough to the dead man to arrange to meet him at an isolated spot without arousing suspicions . |
| 2 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 3 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 4 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 7 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 8 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 9 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 11 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 12 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 13 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 14 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 15 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 16 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 17 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 18 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 19 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
| 20 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
| 21 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 22 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 23 | His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation . |
| 24 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 25 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 26 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 27 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 28 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 29 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 30 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |