Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 2 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 3 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 8 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 11 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 12 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 13 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 14 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 15 | He looked at me across the room . |
| 16 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 17 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 18 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
| 19 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 20 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 21 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 22 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 23 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 24 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 25 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 26 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 27 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 28 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |
| 29 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 30 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |