Example sentences of "[verb] him at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal . |
| 2 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 3 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 4 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 5 | The next day Mr Foggerty told the four boys to meet him at the Town baths after school . |
| 6 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 8 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 9 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 10 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 11 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 12 | Bless Marvin Gaye — but we do n't need him at the moment ! |
| 13 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 14 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 15 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 16 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 17 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 18 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 19 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 20 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 21 | Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood . |
| 22 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
| 23 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 24 | Now , I must welcome him at the door . |
| 25 | He said he was in contact with the Chief Constable of Warrington who told him that the Ball family would welcome him at the funeral , but only as a private individual . |
| 26 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 27 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 28 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 29 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 30 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |