Example sentences of "[v-ing] at him [prep] [art] [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 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
8 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
9 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
10 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
11 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
12 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
13 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
16 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
17 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
18 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
24 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
27 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
28 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
29 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
30 | 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 . |