Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 2 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 3 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 9 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 10 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 11 | She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence . |
| 12 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 13 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |