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

No	Sentence
1	I caught him up at last .
2	Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him .
3	He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him
4	She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset .
5	So she might be better he might be better going with Gill , I 'll tell him tonight erm she 's going over there at two and coming back at three thirty and she wanted Lee to go , like , at three thirty and she 'd bring him back at half past eight at night .
6	I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers .
7	And I 'll send him along at seven then ?
8	He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game .
9	As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’
10	I 'm expecting him back at any moment .
11	You see , my father generally deals with these ; I 'm expecting him back at any moment .
12	Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work .
13	She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways .
14	I talked him down at one point
15	and she did actually take him out at one time
16	I saw Toby Latimer myself ; I confess I ca n't make him out at all .
17	The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six .
18	Pick him up at twenty five to four .
19	I hardly roughed him up at all .
20	getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes
21	Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is
22	Then she has Darren until May picks him up at seven .
23	She walked to the main doors with him and said a quick ‘ Goodnight ’ , reminding him that she 'd pick him up at eleven the following morning .
24	She 'd just er put him down at ten and , and that , that was that .
25	‘ You try pinning him down at such short notice .
26	He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body .
27	You would wake him up at six in the morning and say : ‘ Right Sir we are going here ’ and off we would go . ’
28	So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all .
29	Picked him up at Imperial College .
30	He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five .