Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies .
2 He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself .
3 Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded .
4 Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him .
5 He looked around him at the other producers and researchers .
6 He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky .
7 Loneliness stole across him at the strangest times .
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