Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him .
2 She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth .
3 And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief .
4 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
5 On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him .
6 They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said .
7 Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely .
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