Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at him [prep] a " 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 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 5 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 6 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 7 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She stopped fighting , blinking up at him through a mass of tangled hair , her eyes wild , her breath coming in convulsive gasps . |
| 10 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 11 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
| 12 | She looked up at him with a sideways , almost shy glance . |
| 13 | Finally , she came to stop beside him and looked up at him with a serious , troubled air . |
| 14 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
| 15 | She looked up at him with a falsely bright smile , then wished she had n't . |
| 16 | She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter . |
| 17 | She looked up at him with a slightly worried expression , put out her hand as though to catch hold of him , and slipped to the floor in a faint . |
| 18 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
| 19 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
| 20 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
| 21 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 22 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 23 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 24 | A HOTEL employee was burned when flames shot out at him from a log fire he was stoking . |
| 25 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |