Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at he [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
2 | I looked at him over the roof . |
3 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
4 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
5 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
6 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | ‘ 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 . |
11 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
12 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
13 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
14 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
15 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
16 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
17 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
18 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
19 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
20 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
21 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
22 | She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole . |
23 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
24 | ‘ I 'm not the slightest bit interested in you — or what you wear ! ’ she hissed at him beneath the sound of the children 's laughter as they jumped off the bed , and scampered about the room . |
25 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |