Example sentences of "him at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 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 | Bodie acknowledged him at the bar . |
| 4 | I watched him at the bar , a short but fairly broad-shouldered figure with fairish hair . |
| 5 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 6 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 7 | I telephoned him at the shipping company , but was told that he was not in the office . |
| 8 | We saw him at the Test matches , congratulating Gooch . |
| 9 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 10 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 11 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 12 | It 's just that — well , last night I was having a drink with him at the Dragon . ’ |
| 13 | The decisive victory won by Ieyasu and lords allied to him at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 established his supremacy over rivals throughout the islands of Honshu , Shikoku and Kyushu . |
| 14 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 15 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 16 | We 'll get everything sorted out this week , we 'll , we 'll move him at the weekend |
| 17 | Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her . |
| 18 | He opened his arms as she joined him at the mirror . |
| 19 | Standing there beside him at the water 's edge , she looked down at his reflection , next to her own in the still , clear water . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw him at the tow-lift earlier , ’ she revealed . |
| 21 | After the king 's death in 1223 , he pledged his support for Philip 's son Louis VII , but deserted him at the siege of Avignon in 1226 . |
| 22 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government . |
| 25 | Easy Over 's victory at Garthorpe puts him at the head of the area Young Horse title , and Shedid has increased her lead in the mares ' championship . |
| 26 | In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there . |
| 27 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 28 | But his arguments can be generalized for all mass cultural forms ; indeed , taking more recent popular music developments and music theorizing into account , we can see him at the head — implicitly and sometimes explicitly — of a ‘ Benjamin Ian ’ tradition , pointing perhaps ‘ beyond mass culture ’ . |
| 29 | I have served a place for him at the head of the queue to buy shares in the privatised NIE . |
| 30 | In making Gloucester chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north , Edward was thus effectively putting him at the head of the surviving royal affinity there . |