Example sentences of "[verb] him at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 32 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 33 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 34 | Lamb 's solicitor Alan Herd , who represented him at the 50-minute hearing , said : ‘ Allan is very unhappy with the decision and is urgently considering an appeal to the Cricket Council . |
| 35 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 36 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 37 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 38 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 39 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
| 40 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 41 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 42 | Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match . |
| 43 | If his remarkable strategic instinct convinced him at an early stage that it would be necessary to negotiate with the FLN , his obvious repugnance at the process caused major problems . |
| 44 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 45 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 46 | They see him at the winning post , |
| 47 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |