Example sentences of "[vb past] him at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 3 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 4 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 5 | Glasses , a beard and lots of grey hairs — 47-year-old Rod Stewart 's new look seems to have stunned his model wife Rachel Hunter who joined him at a Los Angeles club . |
| 6 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 7 | For a long time , I adored him at a distance and could n't believe my luck when he started showing an interest in me . ’ |
| 8 | The man in charge of the investigation , Supt Stan Fletcher , said : ‘ Local police in Newcastle arrested him at a hotel last night . |
| 9 | " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine . |
| 10 | I met him at a Conference , in Paris . ’ |
| 11 | I met him at a party . |
| 12 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 13 | I met him at a dance , a nice soldier who was playing double bass in the band . |
| 14 | ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis . |
| 15 | Apparently I met him at a conference on the economics of multiculturalism . |
| 16 | ‘ I met him at a tennis club , and he was a very , very attractive man indeed . |
| 17 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 18 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 19 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 20 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |
| 21 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 22 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 23 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 24 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |