Example sentences of "they [vb past] him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His find was still there when they stripped him at the mortuary . ’ |
| 3 | They screwed him at least once and he knows it . |
| 4 | Then they dumped him at Markyate , Herts , and gave back his keys — plus £5 for a taxi ride to his looted truck . |
| 5 | ‘ Dirkie ’ they called him at school . |
| 6 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 7 | They knew him at McCausland 's , and would treat him reverentially . |
| 8 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 9 | They nursed him at the Priory and interrogated him there . |
| 10 | They put him at a-disadvantage . |
| 11 | One of the conspirators would ring the foreman to tip him off that the shop steward could be caught red-handed stealing company property if they searched him at the gate . |