Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at him [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 . |