Example sentences of "him [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 2 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
| 3 | Oh , I 've got him in at the play school you see , starts play school after Easter |
| 4 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 5 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |
| 6 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 7 | And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere . |
| 8 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , I 've a horrible feeling I do n't want to talk to him just at the moment . |
| 10 | Instead of flitting from one employer to another he remained constant in Richard 's service and was with him still at the end at Chalus . |
| 11 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 12 | I saw him once at the beginning of this month . |
| 13 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 14 | Soon it was time for him to return and it was arranged that Anne and Sarah who were both free would see him off at the station . |
| 15 | ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed . |
| 16 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 17 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 18 | Dustin asked if he could sleep at Beck 's apartment , and if he would come and pick him up at the hall . |
| 19 | The boy looked round behind him up at the cliff . |
| 20 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 21 | Making up her mind , she said fiercely , ‘ It was him up at the manor . |
| 22 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 23 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |
| 24 | It would be like running away from him back at the basement . |
| 25 | But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list . |
| 26 | He said to please meet him back at the house this evening . ’ |
| 27 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 28 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
| 29 | This and his aristocratic connections served him well at the Restoration . |
| 30 | Always optimistic , Anne felt sure that now that she would see him regularly at the dance , she would soon find out how he 268 really felt about her , but it was not to be . |