Example sentences of "[vb past] him at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 2 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 3 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 4 | Nicholson 's former colleague , David Price , joined him at the new Locksfields factory , where they began a detailed study of the conditions for making magenta dye . |
| 5 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 6 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 7 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 8 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 9 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 10 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 11 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 12 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 13 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 14 | Lamb 's solicitor Alan Herd , who represented him at the 50-minute hearing , said : ‘ Allan is very unhappy with the decision and is urgently considering an appeal to the Cricket Council . |
| 15 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 16 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 17 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 18 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 19 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 20 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |