Example sentences of "[to-vb] he at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour .
2 We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’
3 We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant .
4 He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags .
5 The next day Mr Foggerty told the four boys to meet him at the Town baths after school .
6 It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone .
7 ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte .
8 Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech .
9 Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table .
10 Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit .
11 There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed .
12 It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’
13 It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim .
14 He has a brother in Devon and a sister in Manchester and his mother travels from Exeter twice a year to visit him at the centre where she attends the pujas the daily services .
15 An order may require the child to allow the supervisor to visit him at the place where he is living ( para 8(1) ( b ) ) .
16 But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table .
17 England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe .
18 Dr. Briant had said , when they taught her how to handle him at the beginning , ‘ He must never be coerced — coaxed — to do anything .
19 His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ?
20 Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries .
21 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
22 Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough .
23 Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment .
24 But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’
25 Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won .
26 ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line .
27 On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground .
28 Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club .
29 He was 55 years old in 1860 , living in Lambeth as a bachelor — perhaps with nothing much else to interest him at the time ?
30 Liam wondered why there were such long faces to greet him at the shop .
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