Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
2 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
5 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 |
8 | He looked at me across the room . |
9 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
10 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
11 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
12 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
15 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
16 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
17 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
18 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
19 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
20 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |