Example sentences of "[verb] him at his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 2 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 3 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 4 | Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews . |
| 5 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 6 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 7 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 8 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 9 | Did you see him at his party . |
| 10 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 11 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 12 | They forced him across the pitch they forced him onto his right-hand side Collimore which is n't his best side and they 've managed t they 've managed to frustrate him at his shooting at a distance . |
| 13 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 14 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 15 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 16 | She would take him at his word . |
| 17 | The government should take him at his word . |
| 18 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 19 | He seemed to think she should simply take him at his word . |
| 20 | Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 21 | Then I went to see him at his home in Wimbledon and , as we were talking , he gradually got into the Frank Spencer character . |
| 22 | Even the call asking her to see him at his office had been made by a secretary . |
| 23 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 24 | Although Trofin had been an ally of Ceauşescu against the old guard in the mid-1960s , in an act of rare solidarity , perhaps even comradeship , Draghici , Bârladeanu , Brucan , Corneliu Manescu , and others turned out to mourn him at his funeral . |
| 25 | ‘ Laid him at his enemy 's mercy . |
| 26 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's power enough , ’ agreed Watt , taking him at his word . |
| 28 | I took him at his word . |
| 29 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 30 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |