Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb past] at him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews .
2 His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face .
3 His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side .
4 His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei .
5 He paused as his mother stared at him in bewilderment .
6 His mother looked at him for a moment without an expression on her face , then she smiled and waved her glass at him .
7 The thought of Harriet Shakespeare slipped into the thought of poor Keith standing awkward and miserable among his mess of papers , while his mother screamed at him for not being neat and ordinary , like Rachel .
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