Example sentences of "[verb] him at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 2 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 3 | Apparently Kelly played well again … we might see him at right back vs Man City . |
| 4 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 5 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 6 | When she played , charging him at full speed , she would often knock him over but always retracted her claws , which , when used for hunting in the wild , can tear a wild pig or deer apart . |
| 7 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |
| 8 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 9 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 10 | There 's no more dangerous animal in the jungle if you surprise him at close quarters . " |
| 11 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 12 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 13 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 14 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 15 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 16 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 17 | She has lost the support of the town 's Social Democratic mayor , Peter Schönlein , who will not even let her represent him at official functions , and the political parties and their committees also systematically exclude her . |
| 18 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 19 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |