Example sentences of "at he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Look at him with the bloody roll in the window !
2 He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much .
3 The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula .
4 I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine .
5 The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line .
6 She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence .
7 ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands .
8 And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions .
9 ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass .
10 She smiled at him from the opposite stool .
11 Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear .
12 " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots .
13 Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set .
14 But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight .
15 Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants .
16 She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket .
17 ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue .
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