Example sentences of "[vb past] he at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 2 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 3 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 4 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 5 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 6 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 7 | Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood . |
| 8 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
| 9 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 10 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 11 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 12 | The suggestions included limiting Congress 's powers only to proposing amendments to the Constitution , and allowing Yeltsin to retain the right granted him at the October-November 1991 extraordinary Congress to appoint ministers without approval from the legislature . |
| 13 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 14 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 15 | I actually advised him at the meeting that he should not and could n't take that motion , and I was by Alderman in that situation , but he still deemed to go ahead and that 's p his prerogative . |
| 16 | I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office . |
| 17 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 18 | He opened his arms as she joined him at the mirror . |
| 19 | Willie climbed out of bed and joined him at the window . |
| 20 | She walked over and joined him at the table . |
| 21 | Wycliffe joined him at the table . |
| 22 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 23 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 24 | Bodie acknowledged him at the bar . |
| 25 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |
| 26 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
| 27 | Not for the first time this season MrTyson needed a police escort as protesting losers surrounded him at the end . |
| 28 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 29 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |
| 30 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |