Example sentences of "[verb] him at his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 4 | The T. S. Eliot Lectures show him at his best — relaxed , immensely well read and decisive . |
| 5 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 6 | Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am . |
| 7 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 8 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 9 | Duke of Monmouth , following in Oh So Risky 's footsteps , won last year 's Triumph Hurdle and will get the strongly-run race and fast ground so necessary to see him at his best . |
| 10 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 11 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 12 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |
| 13 | He quoted a passage from the Psalms in which God speaks to the Messiah and sets him at his right hand until all enemies have been overcome . |
| 14 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 15 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 16 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |