Example sentences of "him [adv prt] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green .
2 The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest .
3 Branson took him in at a glance .
4 Oh , I 've got him in at the play school you see , starts play school after Easter
5 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 .
6 They 've got him down at the station for questioning .
7 He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed .
11 Dustin asked if he could sleep at Beck 's apartment , and if he would come and pick him up at the hall .
12 The boy looked round behind him up at the cliff .
13 ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery .
14 Making up her mind , she said fiercely , ‘ It was him up at the manor .
15 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 ’ .
16 It would be like running away from him back at the basement .
17 But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list .
18 He said to please meet him back at the house this evening . ’
19 I got him out at an ice cream parlor after a while .
20 In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade .
21 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 .
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