Example sentences of "[to-vb] he at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 2 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |
| 3 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 4 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 5 | Michael holds Howard by the upper arms , to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips , and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment . |
| 6 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 7 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 8 | Leighton 's error in allowing Didier Deschamps to beat him at the near post and present France with an advantage they did not deserve was crucial to the outcome of the match . |
| 9 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |