Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 2 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 3 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 4 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 5 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 6 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 7 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 8 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 9 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 10 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 11 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 12 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 13 | When I turned to look back at him after a short canter , he was winded and scared with barely enough strength to stay on his horse . |
| 14 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 15 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 17 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 18 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 20 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 21 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 22 | Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget ! |
| 23 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 24 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 25 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 26 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 27 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 28 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 29 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 30 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |