Example sentences of "[verb] him at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 2 | He had told his informant to meet him at nine o'clock . |
| 3 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 4 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Clover Lodge did n't suit him at all . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 7 | Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know him at all , really , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't know him at all , I 've never met him . |
| 11 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 12 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 13 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 14 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 15 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 16 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 17 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 18 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 19 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 20 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 21 | The next morning Dad woke him at eight . |
| 22 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 23 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 24 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 25 | His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’ |
| 26 | He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all . |
| 27 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 28 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 29 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 30 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |