Example sentences of "he [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |
| 2 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 3 | So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all . |
| 4 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 5 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 6 | ‘ You try pinning him down at such short notice . |
| 7 | I talked him down at one point |
| 8 | She 'd just er put him down at ten and , and that , that was that . |
| 9 | Held , ( 1 ) that section 18(1) and ( 2 ) authorised an order for payment by the board of that part of the costs of the proceedings determined in the defendant 's favour incurred by him personally at any time when he was not receiving legal aid and was thus an unassisted person ; that , accordingly , the House had jurisdiction under the section to order payment by the board of the defendant 's costs incurred before the issue of his legal aid certificate ; and that the appropriate course was to adjourn the defendant 's application under regulation 143 of the Regulations of 1989 for him to pursue his claim in accordance with regulation 147 ( post , pp. 199G , 201A–B , E , H — 202A , 203B–D ) . |
| 10 | And I 'll send him along at seven then ? |
| 11 | It moved him not at all . |
| 12 | Apparently this one and only brush with city life impressed him not at all . |
| 13 | The revolution of 1399 affected him not at all . |
| 14 | No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I did n't mean arrest him just at this minute . |
| 16 | Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't turn him away at this hour , ’ she said . |
| 18 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 19 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 20 | I do n't know him hardly at all . |
| 21 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 22 | I hardly roughed him up at all . |
| 23 | As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’ |
| 24 | You would wake him up at six in the morning and say : ‘ Right Sir we are going here ’ and off we would go . ’ |
| 25 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 26 | She walked to the main doors with him and said a quick ‘ Goodnight ’ , reminding him that she 'd pick him up at eleven the following morning . |
| 27 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 28 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 29 | Picked him up at Imperial College . |
| 30 | Then she has Darren until May picks him up at seven . |