Example sentences of "have [verb] him at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately . |
| 3 | Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth . |
| 4 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone must have known him at Emmanuel , ’ added the Archdeacon . |
| 6 | That will spare Italy 's World Cup blushes — but it 's bad news for Scotland , their next opponents , who will now have to face him at Ibrox on November 18 . |
| 7 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've seen him at Liverpool in the players ’ lounge . |
| 9 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 10 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 11 | They 've got him at Broadman 's place ! |
| 12 | The decision had cheered him up ; the bustle created by his demands reaffirmed the show of his importance ; and he could still feel a breeze from the pure air which had wreathed him at Hause Point . |
| 13 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 14 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |
| 15 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 16 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 17 | ‘ This is not the mood , these are not the spirits , in which I 've known him at home . |
| 18 | She had hit him at lunchtime — her feelings now were even more murderous . |
| 19 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |
| 20 | The Eli Hoobaka group , involved in the 1985 North/Contra/CBN arms deal , were prime suspects , and the likeliest motive , as Coleman had suspected all along , was that a DEA informant in the Lebanese Forces had identified him at Eurame as a friend of Asmar 's . |
| 21 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 22 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 23 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |