Example sentences of "he [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 2 | No one could make him stay at school . |
| 3 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 4 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 5 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 6 | I 've heard him shouting at Nicola in their bedroom , which is below mine , so I know that his polished and polite air is not the whole story . |
| 7 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 8 | And Jim had some familiar faces around to make him feel at home . |
| 9 | Or some chum of Matt 's put it there to make him feel at home . |
| 10 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 11 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |
| 12 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 13 | Whilst he has this weight advantage ( you get with youth ) Id let him run at defenders but especially the 2 central ones . |
| 14 | I had hoped there would be a letter from him waiting at Benedict 's when I returned last night . |
| 15 | And if Angel did not want to become a priest , what was the use of sending him to study at Cambridge ? |
| 16 | ‘ I have agreed with his owner to let him run at Newbury because they have had a lot of rain down south . ’ |
| 17 | This time Turenne forced him to battle at Sasbach but was struck by one of the first shots fired . |
| 18 | Holly was bubbling with the story of him arriving at work to find someone else installed in his office and his personal possessions in a heap in the corridor . |
| 19 | The image of him sobbing at night as he nursed his physical and psychological wounds is heart-rending . |
| 20 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 21 | What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak . |
| 22 | But will she come to watch him play at Wimbledon this week ? |
| 23 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 24 | She had invited him to stay at Blemley House because she had heard that he was clever . |
| 25 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 26 | And Sporting looked down and out when the irrepressible Gavin Peacock struck twice on half-time to show just what a coup it was when Keegan persuaded him to stay at Newcastle . |
| 27 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 28 | Even now , a hard up local could be sure of a free pint just by telling Knocker he had watched him fight at Gloucester 's annual Barton Fair , back in the old days . |
| 29 | Section 29 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( P. & C.E. Act ) provides that he should be informed at once that he is under arrest if a decision is taken to prevent him leaving at will . |
| 30 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |