Example sentences of "him at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 2 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 3 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 4 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 5 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 6 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 7 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 8 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 9 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 10 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 11 | So you drop him at the actual hospital ? |
| 12 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 13 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |
| 14 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 15 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 16 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 17 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 18 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 19 | Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door . |
| 20 | But there was the rub , for Ben had , according to many , the most explosive start ever in athletics ' history and being with him at the three-fifths point in the race was , apparently , beyond the powers of the sprinters gathered in the Stadio Olimpico on this hot August day , Lewis included . |
| 21 | IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS . |
| 22 | IF YOU 'VE GOT ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS OR WITH ANY MAJOR WINDOWS APPLICATION , WRITE TO HIM AT THE USUAL ADDRESS . |
| 23 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 24 | The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting . |
| 25 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 26 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 27 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 28 | catch him at the right time . |
| 29 | Michael holds Howard by the upper arms , to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips , and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment . |
| 30 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |