Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 2 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 3 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 4 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 5 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 6 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 7 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 8 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 9 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |