Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before .
2 He came at her from the front then ? ’
3 His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered .
4 He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name .
5 He grinned at us through the darkness .
6 As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth .
7 I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep
8 He looked at me across the room .
9 He looked at me for the first time when I said this .
10 He nodded and he looked at me for the first time .
11 He looked at her across the pillows .
12 He looked at her for the first time with real unease .
13 He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done .
14 He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight .
15 He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling .
16 He looked at her from the corner of his eye .
17 He looked at her in the driving mirror .
18 He looked at her in the light of the fire .
19 He stared at her through the flickering shadows .
20 He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door .
21 He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time .
22 ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box .
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