Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 2 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 3 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 4 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 5 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 6 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 7 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 8 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 9 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 10 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 13 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 14 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 15 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 16 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 17 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 18 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 19 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 20 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 21 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 23 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 24 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 25 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 26 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 27 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 28 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 29 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 30 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |