Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 2 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 3 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 5 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 6 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 7 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 8 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 9 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 10 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 11 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 12 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 13 | The decision had cheered him up ; the bustle created by his demands reaffirmed the show of his importance ; and he could still feel a breeze from the pure air which had wreathed him at Hause Point . |
| 14 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 15 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |
| 16 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 17 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 18 | She had hit him at lunchtime — her feelings now were even more murderous . |
| 19 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |
| 20 | The Eli Hoobaka group , involved in the 1985 North/Contra/CBN arms deal , were prime suspects , and the likeliest motive , as Coleman had suspected all along , was that a DEA informant in the Lebanese Forces had identified him at Eurame as a friend of Asmar 's . |
| 21 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 22 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 23 | She travelled to hear him at Kirkcudbright next evening , and to other meetings after that . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |