Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at him from the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
5 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
6 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
7 | 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 ! |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
10 | It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face . |
11 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
12 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
13 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
14 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
15 | He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium . |