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 Nobody recognised him at his true value .
5 Firstly the electric alarm clock had fused sometime during the night , failing to rouse him at his usual eight am .
6 ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school .
7 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 .
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