Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard .
2 as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows .
3 She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her .
4 A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me .
5 Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters .
6 Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me .
7 On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him .
8 They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said .
9 David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end .
10 So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other .
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