Example sentences of "[adv] at him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 2 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 3 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 4 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 5 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 6 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 7 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 8 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 10 | She stopped fighting , blinking up at him through a mass of tangled hair , her eyes wild , her breath coming in convulsive gasps . |
| 11 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 12 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
| 13 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 14 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 15 | Turning around to peer up at him in the gathering darkness , Laura had no clue what he was thinking as she viewed his bland expression , which echoed the studied unconcern in his voice . |
| 16 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 17 | A HOTEL employee was burned when flames shot out at him from a log fire he was stoking . |
| 18 | It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face . |
| 19 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 20 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 21 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 22 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 23 | They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness . |
| 24 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |
| 25 | Joseph grinned ruefully back at him for a moment , then sensing the senator was warming to a familiar theme , he picked up a history of French Indochina that lay open on the table before him and sank down in his chair behind it . |
| 26 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 27 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 28 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 30 | He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium . |