Example sentences of "him [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |
| 2 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 3 | I talked him down at one point |
| 4 | Held , ( 1 ) that section 18(1) and ( 2 ) authorised an order for payment by the board of that part of the costs of the proceedings determined in the defendant 's favour incurred by him personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and was thus an unassisted person ; that , accordingly , the House had jurisdiction under the section to order payment by the board of the defendant 's costs incurred before the issue of his legal aid certificate ; and that the appropriate course was to adjourn the defendant 's application under regulation 143 of the Regulations of 1989 for him to pursue his claim in accordance with regulation 147 ( post , pp. 199G , 201A–B , E , H — 202A , 203B–D ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I did n't mean arrest him just at this minute . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't turn him away at this hour , ’ she said . |
| 7 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 8 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 9 | Picked him up at Imperial College . |
| 10 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 11 | I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 12 | You see , my father generally deals with these ; I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 13 | and she did actually take him out at one time |
| 14 | Why should he build barns , drain land , clear wasteland and so on , if his landlord could turn him out at any time and reap the benefit of the improvement himself ? |
| 15 | She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency . |
| 16 | But he was very sick so er they wanted somebody to stay with him overnight at any rate so I , he was n't sleeping , and I , he said what , I said to him , what do you think made you sick ? |
| 17 | Well he had this environment mental officer , they they in inaugurated him then at this meeting meeting when erm the thing you handed over |