Example sentences of "[v-ing] at him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 3 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 4 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 5 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 6 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 8 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 9 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 10 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 11 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 12 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 13 | A windy night , is n't it ? ’ he says — which is self-evident as you shiver , peering at him past the security chain on the door while struggling to keep yourself decent . |
| 14 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 15 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 16 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 17 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 18 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 19 | Aaron , Benstede 's man , glaring at him through the crowd at the banquet in the castle while Benstede looked reproachfully at him . |
| 20 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
| 21 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |
| 22 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |
| 23 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 24 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 25 | His name was called , and he turned his head and saw Lavinia waving at him from the porch . |
| 26 | She finished her drink , smiling at him over the rim of the cup . |
| 27 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 28 | There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk . |