Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 2 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 3 | Then she added in a confiding tone : ‘ Of course , she was not much with her husband really — and I think that helps — she is n't reminded of him at every turn , like an ordinary widow would be . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 6 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 7 | Michael Grant , who was 24 , died within moments of a fuel oil tank exploding under him at the Midlands Electricity power station in Plough Lane , Hereford last August . |
| 8 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding these advantages and the expenditure of close to $13m mainly on television advertising , Connally won no primaries and had only one delegate committed to him at the convention . |
| 10 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 11 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 12 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 13 | His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step . |
| 14 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 15 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 16 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 17 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 18 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 19 | The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground . |
| 20 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
| 21 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 22 | Initially , Calandrini was on excellent terms with his mentor , De Dominis , lodging with him at the Savoy Hospital . |
| 23 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 24 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 25 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 26 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 27 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 28 | Requests for further information about the programme should be made to him at the address given at the end of this section . |
| 29 | Shamji , who was also ordered to pay £28,960 costs , had asked the Appeal Court to reduce the sentence imposed on him at the Old Bailey on October 30 . |
| 30 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |