Example sentences of "at him [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She looked at him with a challenging stare .
2 His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side .
3 Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression .
4 Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour .
5 She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing .
6 She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance .
7 She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter .
8 ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity .
9 The man looked at him with a kindly face .
10 It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze .
11 She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal .
12 But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face .
13 She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis .
14 Marks looked at him with a speculative eye .
15 A big , broad-shouldered man pushed between us to shout to someone on the street , gesturing at him with a huge banana .
16 Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile .
17 Ernie looked at him with a sheepish grin .
18 Ilbrec was silent at that , and Ruth looked at him with a quick tightening of anxiety .
19 She gazed at him with a worried frown .
20 Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression .
21 Father Poole stared at him for a long while .
22 She stared at him for a long time .
23 Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly .
24 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
25 Surere looked at him for a long time .
26 She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips .
27 She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression .
28 She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said .
29 Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street
30 They stopped and looked at him from a little distance .
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