Example sentences of "[noun sg] of him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything about him , from the sleek black head to the jutting strength of his jawline , to the broad , strong , self-satisfied bulk of him at ease in the chair , announced that he knew in the fibre of his being that his touch was anything but abhorrent to her . |
| 2 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't like the look of him at all , ’ said Angalo . |
| 4 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 5 | Somebody got hold of him at Edgbaston Golf Club one morning and asked him if he wanted a job this season — carrying for Brian Harley . |
| 6 | There are a bust and a portrait of him at Lord 's . |
| 7 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 8 | My last recollection of him at Kelham was when he gave a reading of his poetry . |
| 9 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 10 | How convenient that Devlin was playing piano there although there was no sign of him at the moment . |
| 11 | No news of him at all ? |
| 12 | I never met him , but my brother and I had a glimpse of him at Paddington in 1940 , when he took Ivy and Margaret to Woodstock . |
| 13 | Occasionally , perhaps once a year , I caught sight of him at Ognisko , the Polish Hearth , in Prince 's Gate . |
| 14 | They think the world of him at the Northern . |
| 15 | Although he had won the Derby , plenty of people were still convinced that he did not truly stay a mile and a half and that Piggott 's sensitive handling of him at Epsom , producing him at the very last moment , had masked this lack of stamina . |
| 16 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 17 | Wright , who at 37 chortles about being one of NZ 's so-called ‘ young guns ’ , five years ago probably would have caught one which dropped just in front of him at gully . |
| 18 | With the bit of paper in one hand and the keys in the other , he held his arms straight out in front of him at the same height . |
| 19 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
| 20 | He was armed , but the dragonrider observed with some interest the strange way in which the man held the sword in front of him at arm 's length , as though embarrassed to be seen in its company . |
| 21 | The little cunt who made me parade in front of him at eight thirty in the morning so I erm |
| 22 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 23 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |