Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 2 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 3 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 4 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 5 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ he said , a soft laugh escaping him at her obvious embarrassment . |
| 7 | But startling news awaited him at Naples . |
| 8 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 9 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 10 | Tikva , a 26-year-old Israeli , has impressed on trial at the City Ground with the Belgian club pricing him at £500,000 . |
| 11 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 12 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 13 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 14 | He shook his head , hardly able to bear the thought of what they were paying out to have his antique father-in-law insult him at mealtimes . |
| 15 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 16 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 17 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 20 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 21 | She knew Archie Cousins was a loafer whose sharp nose pointed him at everything except honest toil . |
| 22 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 23 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |