Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 3 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 4 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 5 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 6 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 7 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 8 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 9 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 10 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 11 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 12 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 13 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 14 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 15 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 16 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 17 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 18 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 19 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 20 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 21 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 22 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 23 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 24 | She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn . |