Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] he at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte .
3 I thought she was supposed to have him at the beginning of this month .
4 Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment .
5 England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe .
6 And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance .
7 I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner .
8 But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with .
9 She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it .
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