Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] 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 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 3 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 9 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 10 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 11 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 12 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 13 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
| 14 | She looked up at him with a sideways , almost shy glance . |
| 15 | Finally , she came to stop beside him and looked up at him with a serious , troubled air . |
| 16 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
| 17 | She looked up at him with a falsely bright smile , then wished she had n't . |
| 18 | She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
| 21 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 22 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
| 23 | She looked up at him in a dazed manner . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 26 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 27 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |