Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 2 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 7 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 8 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 9 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 10 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 15 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 16 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |