Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka .
2 Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly .
3 He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence .
4 I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’
5 He winked at me with a slight shake of his head .
6 He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force .
7 He lunged at us with a knife .
8 He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket .
9 She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise .
10 He looks at me for a second .
11 He looks at me for the first time .
12 In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop .
13 He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help .
14 ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next .
15 And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’
16 Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed .
17 The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before .
18 He came at her from the front then ? ’
19 He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh .
20 ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl .
21 That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off .
22 He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing .
23 His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered .
24 He grinned at her from a toothless mouth .
25 He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name .
26 He grinned at us through the darkness .
27 His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way .
28 He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance .
29 And he laughed at her like a boy .
30 He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure .
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