Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 2 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 3 | Tom Fish held him at arm 's length over his head , spun him this way and that until the sky turned sickeningly above him . |
| 4 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 5 | ‘ Your readers might wonder how he could win at Ripon after finishing down the field when Lester Piggott rode him at York , but there was nothing sinister about it . |
| 6 | Mrs Rose left him at the station and returned alone to London . |
| 7 | Through the front window Mrs Mann saw him at the gate , and turned quickly to the girl who worked with her . |
| 8 | From this point of view , opportunities must have seemed slow to come , but de Valois gave him at least one chance every year from the time of his joining the company : Adieu and Tritsch Tratsch in 1947 , Children 's Corner in 1948 and , for the following year , his most ambitious production to date , Sea Change . |
| 9 | Judge Peter Greenwood told him at Chelmsford Crown Court : ‘ You are a dangerously sick man . ’ |
| 10 | The squire who was sent south to carry the good news to King Henry overtook him at Daventry on the 20th of September . |
| 11 | Eddie McAteer made a public call for the march to be postponed , but Fred Heatley , John McAnerney and Betty Sinclair visited him at home to persuade him not to pull out . |