Example sentences of "[verb] at him with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 3 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 4 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 5 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 6 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 7 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 8 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 9 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 10 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 11 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 12 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 13 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 14 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 15 | She looked at him with a feeling of panic . |
| 16 | We 've got a fine little school here , I 'm sure you 'd agree — ’ Hilary Frome looked at him with a light of pure idealism in his eyes , but he drew the line at assenting — ‘ but what 's going to count in the years ahead is what we 've got up top . |
| 17 | She looked at him with a gleam of defiance . |
| 18 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 19 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 20 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 21 | She looked at him with an air of apology . |
| 22 | The old gentleman looked at him with an expression of dislike . |
| 23 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 24 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 25 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 26 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 27 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |