Example sentences of "[prep] him at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rabbitohs were to contribute to international Rugby League one of the great backs of any era , Clive Churchill , the Little Master , so dazzling there is even a stand named after him at the Sydney Cricket Ground . |
| 2 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 3 | But Rosa motioned to him to sit , and sat herself down , opposite him at the table , expectant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 6 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 7 | This is , however , a rare instance of Anderson displaying any interest in McKendrick and the change in his attitude towards him at the end of the play is confirmed in the figures for his turn-allocation . |
| 8 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 9 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 10 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 11 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 12 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 13 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 14 | With the bit of paper in one hand and the keys in the other , he held his arms straight out in front of him at the same height . |
| 15 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 16 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 17 | They think the world of him at the Northern . |
| 18 | However , when I think of him at the Departments of the Environment and of Education and Science , I realise that it probably was his finest hour . |
| 19 | How convenient that Devlin was playing piano there although there was no sign of him at the moment . |
| 20 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 21 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |
| 22 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 23 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 25 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 26 | Not only have the people never voted for the Prime Minister at the ballot box : they have consistently and persistently voted against him at the ballot box . |
| 27 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 28 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 29 | David 's not a man for leaving work behind him at the end of the day . |
| 30 | He arranged for us all to have a drink with him at The Roebuck . |