Example sentences of "[vb past] him [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 2 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 3 | Whilst he has this weight advantage ( you get with youth ) Id let him run at defenders but especially the 2 central ones . |
| 4 | What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak . |
| 5 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 6 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 7 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 8 | And Sporting looked down and out when the irrepressible Gavin Peacock struck twice on half-time to show just what a coup it was when Keegan persuaded him to stay at Newcastle . |
| 9 | This time Turenne forced him to battle at Sasbach but was struck by one of the first shots fired . |