Example sentences of "[prep] him at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 2 | They think the world of him at the Northern . |
| 3 | With the bit of paper in one hand and the keys in the other , he held his arms straight out in front of him at the same height . |
| 4 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 5 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 6 | But there was the rub , for Ben had , according to many , the most explosive start ever in athletics ' history and being with him at the three-fifths point in the race was , apparently , beyond the powers of the sprinters gathered in the Stadio Olimpico on this hot August day , Lewis included . |
| 7 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 8 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 9 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 10 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 11 | His eyelashes concealed his eyes in that secret , almost coy way he had and she was suddenly dreadfully frightened and angry with him at the same time . |
| 12 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 13 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 14 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 15 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 16 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 17 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 18 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 19 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 20 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 21 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 22 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 23 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 24 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 25 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 26 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 27 | He was thinking of Madra pouring beer for him at the last one . |
| 28 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 29 | IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS . |
| 30 | IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS . |