Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 3 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 4 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 5 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 6 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 7 | Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle . |
| 8 | Then I went to see him at his home in Wimbledon and , as we were talking , he gradually got into the Frank Spencer character . |
| 9 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 10 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 11 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |
| 13 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 14 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 15 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 16 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 17 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 18 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 19 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 20 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 21 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 22 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 23 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 24 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 25 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
| 26 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 27 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 28 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 29 | She had hit him at lunchtime — her feelings now were even more murderous . |
| 30 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |