Example sentences of "him at [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie had him at her mercy . |
| 2 | This new complication revived all the old doubts that she had successfully conquered , and she parted from him at her gate with very mixed feelings . |
| 3 | Immediately , she was aware of him at her side , of his fingers , gentle , firm , pressing her wrist . |
| 4 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 5 | But she remained disturbed , acutely aware of him at her side and only grateful that he despised her too much to allow himself to be seen touching her in public . |
| 6 | He and the princess still talk about the spaghetti suppers she cooked for him at her flat in Earl 's Court . |
| 7 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 8 | When Georges Braque , badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry , came back to Paris in 1917 , Marie Wassilieff gave a banquet for him at her canteen . |
| 9 | Naylor butted in , and , staring at him , Leith could see , where no one else could , that he was daring her to contradict him at her peril . |
| 10 | Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg . |
| 11 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 12 | I 'll probably end up snogging with him at my party . |
| 13 | I consoled him at my breast when he wept . |
| 14 | You can see him at my final , he 's up . |
| 15 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 16 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 17 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 18 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 19 | I took him at his word . |
| 20 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 21 | I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's power enough , ’ agreed Watt , taking him at his word . |
| 23 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 24 | She would take him at his word . |
| 25 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 26 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 27 | The government should take him at his word . |
| 28 | My son took him at his word and went into travel for three years . |
| 29 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 30 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |