Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 8 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 9 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 15 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 16 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 17 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 18 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 19 | And he laughed at her like a boy . |
| 20 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | He looked at me across the room . |
| 24 | He looked at me for a while , thinking . |
| 25 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 26 | He looked at me for a moment , halted in the act of folding his stethoscope . |
| 27 | He looked at me for a minute . |
| 28 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 29 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 30 | He looked at me with a gentle , sad expression on his face . |