Example sentences of "[vb past] at him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 4 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 5 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 6 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 7 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 8 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |
| 9 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 10 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 11 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
| 12 | Bert looked at him for a full half minute . |
| 13 | Newman looked at him with no particular liking . |
| 14 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 15 | She looked at him with a derisive little smile — the sort of smile a lamb might bestow on a wolf promising that being eaten alive wo n't hurt . |
| 16 | She looked at him with a challenging stare . |
| 17 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 18 | Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression . |
| 19 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 20 | The man looked at him with a kindly face . |
| 21 | Louise looked at him with a mock stern expression . |
| 22 | Ernie looked at him with a sheepish grin . |
| 23 | She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal . |
| 24 | Ilbrec was silent at that , and Ruth looked at him with a quick tightening of anxiety . |
| 25 | Marks looked at him with a speculative eye . |
| 26 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 27 | Burger looked at him with an odd expression . |
| 28 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 29 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 30 | She looked at him in a queer , incisive way he did not like at all . |