Example sentences of "[verb] him at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 3 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 4 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 9 | His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 14 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 15 | but waking him at three months ' old |
| 16 | Apparently Kelly played well again … we might see him at right back vs Man City . |
| 17 | You wo n't see him at that price again for a very long time . |
| 18 | We glimpse him at this time as the ‘ very accurate , industrious young man ’ commended by ‘ Governor ’ Thomas Pownall [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
| 20 | it 's only a chosen few that can understand him at that speed . |
| 21 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |
| 22 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 23 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 24 | When she played , charging him at full speed , she would often knock him over but always retracted her claws , which , when used for hunting in the wild , can tear a wild pig or deer apart . |
| 25 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 26 | One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked . |
| 27 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |
| 28 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 29 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 30 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |