Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [pos pn] [adj] game " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 2 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 3 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 4 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 5 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 6 | And we have the drive involved to beat it at its own game . |
| 7 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 8 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 9 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 10 | Unless everyone knows their rules , they ca n't play them at their own game , and there can be no equality of opportunity . |
| 11 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 12 | really got to play them at their own game really . |