Example sentences of "he have [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 2 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 3 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 4 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 5 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 6 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 7 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 8 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 9 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |