Example sentences of "[vb past] him at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others .
2 To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence .
3 Danger of choking stopped him at that point .
4 Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours .
5 Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive .
6 There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence .
7 Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work .
8 Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did .
9 He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead .
10 Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown .
11 well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ?
12 We saw him at Old Trafford
13 Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man .
14 If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side .
15 Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot .
16 He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said .
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