Example sentences of "at him [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 2 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 3 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 4 | The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula . |
| 5 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 6 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 7 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 9 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 10 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 11 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 12 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 13 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 14 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 15 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 16 | She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 18 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 20 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 21 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 22 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 23 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 24 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 25 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 26 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 27 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |