Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 2 | He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force . |
| 3 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 4 | He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket . |
| 5 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |
| 6 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 7 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 8 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 9 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 11 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 12 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 13 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 14 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 15 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 17 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 18 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 21 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 22 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 23 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 24 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 25 | And he laughed at her like a boy . |
| 26 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 27 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | He looked at me across the room . |