Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 2 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 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 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 6 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 7 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 8 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 9 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 10 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 11 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 12 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 13 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 14 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 15 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 17 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 18 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 19 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 20 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 21 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 22 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 23 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 24 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 25 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 26 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 27 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 28 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |
| 29 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 30 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |