Example sentences of "[adv] at him [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps .
5 In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay .
9 Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms .
10 Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter .
11 ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup .
12 She stopped fighting , blinking up at him through a mass of tangled hair , her eyes wild , her breath coming in convulsive gasps .
13 She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders .
14 I looked up at him for a second , then smiled .
15 It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water .
16 In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd .
17 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 .
18 Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay .
19 A HOTEL employee was burned when flames shot out at him from a log fire he was stoking .
20 Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget !
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window .
24 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 .
25 Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel .
26 She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window .
27 It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred .
28 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 .
29 Talk of this sort was mostly to raise morale , as McFarlane was at pains to say when his ‘ Secretary of State ’ remark was thrown back at him at the hearings .
30 " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary .
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