Example sentences of "him at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 2 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 3 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 4 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |
| 5 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 6 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 7 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 8 | Frank Cole of the Daily Telegraph wrote of Chapman : ‘ If you sat near him at a big match … you realized the intense earnestness of the man . |
| 9 | Next Wednesday , a score of television bigwigs will meet him at a special seminar at the Department of Trade and Industry , part of the D T I 's efforts to boost British exports . |
| 10 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 11 | Now that he 'd told her he wanted the club , Adam would probably expect her to keep him at a wary arm 's length . |
| 12 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 13 | He told the reporter , who was driven blindfold to meet him at a secret location , that gangsters doused one of his two sons with petrol and threatened to kill them both if he did not co-operate in the theft . |
| 14 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 15 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 16 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 17 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 18 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 19 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 20 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 21 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 22 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 23 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 24 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 25 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 26 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 27 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 28 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 29 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |
| 30 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |