Example sentences of "i [vb past] him at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house .
2 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
3 I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office .
4 I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone .
5 I watched him at the bar , a short but fairly broad-shouldered figure with fairish hair .
6 I insulted him at the time .
7 I saw him at the tow-lift earlier , ’ she revealed .
8 The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty .
9 I saw him at the Jobcentre a lot .
10 I replaced him at the table opposite Werewolf who was staring into his tomato juice .
11 I left him at the door , and went upstairs to find Mr and Mrs Linton .
12 When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince .
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