Example sentences of "back at him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed .
2 It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred .
3 They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness .
4 " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary .
5 Joseph grinned ruefully back at him for a moment , then sensing the senator was warming to a familiar theme , he picked up a history of French Indochina that lay open on the table before him and sank down in his chair behind it .
6 She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery .
7 Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives .
8 Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror .
9 ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’
10 He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium .
11 Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’
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