Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 2 | The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire . |
| 3 | Although Trofin had been an ally of Ceauşescu against the old guard in the mid-1960s , in an act of rare solidarity , perhaps even comradeship , Draghici , Bârladeanu , Brucan , Corneliu Manescu , and others turned out to mourn him at his funeral . |
| 4 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 5 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 6 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 7 | He was wearing his best suit , which did not fit him at all . |
| 8 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
| 9 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
| 10 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 11 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 12 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 13 | For some reason this did not surprise him at all . |
| 14 | It did not surprise him at all that the Chairman 's answer should come , hand-delivered , to his villa at four o'clock in the morning , and that the rendezvous would be away from Baghdad . |
| 15 | She did not see him at once , as he stood back from the coiling smoke . |
| 16 | After that we did not see him at all . |
| 17 | Suddenly , a fact struck Ken that did not please him at all . |
| 18 | He had been there since his early morning session with Tolonen , unaware of how his fate had hung in the balance in the interim , but Li Yuan did not summon him at once . |
| 19 | Nigel also told every journalist proudly that he was ‘ married with one son ’ , although he made damn sure they did n't interview him at home , where they might meet his wife , or worse still , her friends . |
| 20 | NEALE DOUGHTY ( Twin Oaks ) : ‘ The delay at the start did n't affect him at all , but he had too much weight and the ground was probably too fast . ’ |
| 21 | She could not believe the way she had behaved with Felipe , and she did n't blame him at all . |
| 22 | ‘ He did n't admire him at all . |
| 23 | I did n't fancy him at first , not particularly . |
| 24 | He felt so ashamed of his weakness , but George did n't ridicule him at all . |
| 25 | No , I did n't follow him at all . |
| 26 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 27 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 28 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't like him at all and we did n't get on . |
| 30 | I did n't believe him at first . |