Example sentences of "him at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She recognised this and took care to build up his self-confidence by involving him at every stage of the planning for the move .
2 " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine .
3 ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled .
4 He thinks this keeps him on his mettle , but it often leaves him at a loss for the right word .
5 I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano .
6 She would be responsible for integrating the two contributions and making sure it will be a coherent whole and she would share her royalty with him at a rate to be determined by the proportion of the work each ends up doing .
7 Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism .
8 He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion .
9 This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks .
10 A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire .
11 When we got him out of here , a couple of the boys had a cuppa with him at a caff down the road .
12 The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London .
13 At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war .
14 They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose .
15 Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man .
16 The decisive victory won by Ieyasu and lords allied to him at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 established his supremacy over rivals throughout the islands of Honshu , Shikoku and Kyushu .
17 That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 .
18 Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her .
19 After the king 's death in 1223 , he pledged his support for Philip 's son Louis VII , but deserted him at the siege of Avignon in 1226 .
20 I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended .
21 Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit .
22 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
23 Easy Over 's victory at Garthorpe puts him at the head of the area Young Horse title , and Shedid has increased her lead in the mares ' championship .
24 In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there .
25 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
26 I have served a place for him at the head of the queue to buy shares in the privatised NIE .
27 In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there .
28 In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region .
29 Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings .
30 Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over .
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