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Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him at [adj] " in BNC.

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1	One is that he is rather clean and tidy and polite and fastidious as a person ; the sweatier , wilder , rawer , dirtier areas of human sexuality do not appeal to him at all .
2	He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's .
3	Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time .
4	There are also two attractive houses designed by him at 5/466 and 7/467 .
5	Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’
6	Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds .
7	‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea .
8	When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all .
9	Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs .
10	Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters .
11	In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context :
12	They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all .
13	He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time .
14	‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’
15	Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say
16	‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’
17	And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all .
18	I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills .
19	At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly .
20	They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened .
21	Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed .
22	You do n't look like him at all .
23	As a result , he was taken completely by surprise when twelve stone of lean muscle powered into him at snake-like speed and wrenched the gun aside , the shot slamming into a very surprised Froebe , who staggered back , the impact of his body cracking one of the windows .
24	A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage .
25	His fiancee , Julie Craig , 26 , who lived with him at 34 Churchill Drive , Ardrossan , said that her boyfriend had gone wild in hospital when she visited him .
26	The car would now be calling for him at seven .
27	So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass .
28	He would be rid of him at last .
29	And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all .
30	If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’