Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 2 | At the beginning she had known clearly enough that he was an irrevocably solitary man , and it had seemed to her fortunate to live with him at all . |
| 3 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 4 | They were all waiting for him at home now , he knew , in the olive grove , where the snails would be out crawling in the rain . |
| 5 | I shall only be able to weep for him at night , after Enid has fallen asleep . |
| 6 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
| 7 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |
| 8 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 9 | Hyacinth thought it best to leave with him at once , so as to cut short the unpleasantness . |
| 10 | If they both came at him at once , from opposite sides , how would he deal with them ? |