Example sentences of "[verb] he at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 2 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 3 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 4 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 5 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 6 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 7 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 8 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 9 | ‘ I shall collect him at the end of the day . |
| 10 | Did you never see him at the City of the Horizon ? |
| 11 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 12 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 13 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 14 | Tell him at the end of the week . |
| 15 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 16 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 17 | Maradona is not the player he was and Gazza would have found it a lot tougher facing him at the height of his powers in the Eighties when Argentina won the World Cup . |
| 18 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 19 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
| 20 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 21 | Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her . |
| 22 | After the king 's death in 1223 , he pledged his support for Philip 's son Louis VII , but deserted him at the siege of Avignon in 1226 . |
| 23 | The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career . |
| 24 | He I 'm suppo he says to email him , contact him at the start of week zero , because he 's goin he he 's trying to remember of his own accord , but er ju this is just to give him a kick along in case he 's forgotten |
| 25 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 26 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 27 | Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm . |
| 28 | Garvey , anxious to keep their line of work secret , met him at the foot of the ladder with whispered protests and badly disguised anger . |
| 29 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 30 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |