Example sentences of "at him [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 2 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 3 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 4 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 5 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 6 | Hector trusted him to guard his back , and concentrated on the men poking spears at him from the front and sides . |
| 7 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 8 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |