Example sentences of "him at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 2 | Jacob 's taking advantage of his father 's blindness and frailty , and his deceiving him at one of the most solemn moments of his life , are reminiscent of the shame and humiliation brought to Noah by his son Ham . |
| 3 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 4 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 5 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 6 | Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions . |
| 7 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 8 | Miss Warburton , who lives in London , said she had not done so , adding : ‘ I did not go out with him at all on my own . |
| 9 | A piece of land that had held no particular interest for him at all until the arrival of its new estate manager . |
| 10 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 11 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 12 | the Racing Post did not mention him at all in its main preview of the race ; and the official Cheltenham racecard form guide nominated him ‘ more of a candidate for last place than first ’ . |
| 13 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 14 | Just The the nurse had turned him at half past five in the morning . |
| 15 | Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning . |
| 16 | The dog had awakened him at ten to seven with long-drawn howls and now , a quarter of an hour later , he stood on the threshold of Sheila 's bedroom , glowering . |
| 17 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 18 | He was just over three hours late to meet his guide , locating him at last on the edge of a ruck of Army drivers , forlorn in Air Force blue . |
| 19 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 20 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 21 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |