Example sentences of "him [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 2 | She would let him stay at the breast long after the milk had gone and the gentle , pulling movement as he continued to suck though he was no longer hungry were soothing . |
| 3 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 4 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 5 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 6 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 7 | Particularly when Fergie — to the astonishment and great displeasure of Buckingham Palace staff — arranged for him to dine at the Queen 's official London residence with the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 8 | Edging between the two tall , upright stones , Tug heard him mutter at the Woman , ‘ Lock up the car and bring the Kalashnikov . |
| 9 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 10 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 11 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 12 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 13 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 14 | Mind you , he shits himself does n't he , cos Johnny Giles was it 's controversial cos they would n't let him speak at the end of the game . |
| 15 | Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation . |
| 16 | When asked what had kept him going at a time when Willie Miller 's appointment as manager at Pittodrie prompted speculation that McLeish might be a natural second-in-command , the defender was unequivocal . |
| 17 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 18 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 19 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 20 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |
| 21 | In this instance it is very important for him to look at the monitor while talking and try to pretend that the interviewer is in the room with him . |
| 22 | It 's not like him to grumble at a bitch . |
| 23 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 24 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 25 | ‘ Your one-time intended 's folks , ’ she said — she did not see him wince at the Americanism ; she did not yet know him as well as Sally-Anne did . |
| 26 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 27 | And that was how her love for him felt at the moment — as cheap and useless as a dollar . |
| 28 | He is a systems analyst , and his work is driving him spare at the moment . |
| 29 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 30 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |