Example sentences of "[adv] at him [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 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 23 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 24 | She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 27 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 30 | 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 . |