Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 2 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 3 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 4 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 5 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |