Example sentences of "[adv] at he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
2 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
3 | The anger and resentment expressed at every level , from street vendor to middle-class intellectual , was almost entirely directed at Washington , not at him as an individual American . |
4 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
5 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
6 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
7 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
8 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
9 | Finally , she came to stop beside him and looked up at him with a serious , troubled air . |
10 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
11 | She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter . |
12 | She looked up at him with a sideways , almost shy glance . |
13 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
14 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
15 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
16 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
17 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
18 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
19 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
20 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
21 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
22 | She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis . |
23 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
24 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
25 | When I turned to look back at him after a short canter , he was winded and scared with barely enough strength to stay on his horse . |
26 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
27 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
28 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
29 | Charles 's earliest memory is playing quietly on the floor with a train set while his mother sat sobbing on the edge of the bed , his father smiling weakly at him in a forlorn attempt to reassure his son that everything was all right . |
30 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |