Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
2 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
3 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
4 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
7 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
8 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
9 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
10 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
11 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
12 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
13 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
14 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
15 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
16 | She looked up at him with a sideways , almost shy glance . |
17 | Finally , she came to stop beside him and looked up at him with a serious , troubled air . |
18 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
19 | She looked up at him with a falsely bright smile , then wished she had n't . |
20 | She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter . |
21 | She looked up at him with a slightly worried expression , put out her hand as though to catch hold of him , and slipped to the floor in a faint . |
22 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
23 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
24 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
25 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
26 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
27 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
28 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
29 | As she looked across at him during the game to see him , chin propped on his hand , his whole face a mask of concentration , but paradoxically , at the same time , as relaxed and self-forgetful as she had ever known him , it was plain how handsome he must once have been . |
30 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |