Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 2 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 3 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 4 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 5 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 7 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 8 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 9 | Jenna turned and looked at him in a startled manner . |
| 10 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 12 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 13 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 14 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 15 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 16 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 17 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |