Example sentences of "at him [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 2 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 3 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 4 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 5 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 6 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 7 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 8 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 9 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 10 | On Aug. 16 Solzhenitsyn issued a statement repudiating the restoration of his citizenship because the decree failed to address the accusation of treason levelled at him at the time of his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 . |
| 11 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 12 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 13 | Ashley frowned at him along the length of the sofa . |
| 14 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 15 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |
| 16 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 17 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 19 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 20 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 21 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 22 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 23 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 24 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 25 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 26 | Elinor looked at him over the rim of her magazine . |
| 27 | She finished her drink , smiling at him over the rim of the cup . |
| 28 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 30 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |