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

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1 " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine .
2 ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled .
3 He thinks this keeps him on his mettle , but it often leaves him at a loss for the right word .
4 I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano .
5 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 .
6 Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism .
7 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 .
8 This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks .
9 A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire .
10 When we got him out of here , a couple of the boys had a cuppa with him at a caff down the road .
11 The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London .
12 " A noble breakfast , " says George Borrow of the morning meal offered him at an inn at Bala in North Wales , " there was tea and coffee , a goodly white loaf and butter , there were a couple of eggs and two mutton chops — there was boiled and pickled salmon — fried trout also potted trout and potted shrimps . "
13 Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school .
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