Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him at [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ?
3	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 .
4	I consoled him at my breast when he wept .
5	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 .
6	The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man .
7	I took him at his word .
8	Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’
9	I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male .
10	‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’
11	She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’
12	She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands .
13	Did you see him at his party .
14	The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota .
15	Even the call asking her to see him at his office had been made by a secretary .
16	Naylor butted in , and , staring at him , Leith could see , where no one else could , that he was daring her to contradict him at her peril .
17	He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth .

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