Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 2 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 4 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 5 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 6 | As he strapped the cleansing blade to his left arm , a thrill of carnal excitement shuddered through him at the prospect of another kill , as the bloodlust took full possession of him , banishing the last vestiges of sanity from his sick mind . |
| 7 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | His experience as a flyer was invaluable and those who worked with him at the time , recall the day he died . |
| 9 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 13 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 14 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 15 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 16 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 17 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 18 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 19 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 20 | Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground . |
| 21 | ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift . |
| 22 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 23 | Only now he was smiling as he looked around him at the chaos . |
| 24 | A tiny shaft of surprise jolted through him at the realisation that , this time , he had imputed courage to Isabel 's stoic control instead of calculated coldness . |
| 25 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 26 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 27 | Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain . |
| 28 | A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers and he drew her closer , crushing her against the powerful length of his body so that she could feel his heart thundering against her breast . |
| 29 | ‘ Last December , ’ he continued in a lower voice , ‘ I ran across him at the Warton Castle sale in Sussex . |
| 30 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |