Example sentences of "[vb past] him at [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 2 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 3 | Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews . |
| 4 | Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg . |
| 5 | I consoled him at my breast when he wept . |
| 6 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 7 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 8 | Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Laid him at his enemy 's mercy . |
| 10 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 11 | I took him at his word . |
| 12 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 13 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 14 | My son took him at his word and went into travel for three years . |
| 15 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 16 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 17 | The villagers , however , took him at his word , only too willing to dump their scruffy-arsed offspring on him between the hours of ten and five . |
| 18 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 19 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 20 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | Maybe the director , Pietro Germi , put him at his ease ; Alfredo , Hoffman 's bank clerk , is warm and friendly and likeable . |
| 22 | He sounded so anxious that Folly was quite relieved to hear Luke put him at his ease . |
| 23 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 24 | Marie had him at her mercy . |