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

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1 What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John .
2 She looked at him with a challenging stare .
3 His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side .
4 Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression .
5 Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour .
6 She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing .
7 She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance .
8 She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter .
9 ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity .
10 The man looked at him with a kindly face .
11 It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze .
12 She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal .
13 But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face .
14 She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis .
15 Marks looked at him with a speculative eye .
16 A big , broad-shouldered man pushed between us to shout to someone on the street , gesturing at him with a huge banana .
17 Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile .
18 Ernie looked at him with a sheepish grin .
19 Ilbrec was silent at that , and Ruth looked at him with a quick tightening of anxiety .
20 She gazed at him with a worried frown .
21 Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression .
22 Father Poole stared at him for a long while .
23 She stared at him for a long time .
24 Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly .
25 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
26 Surere looked at him for a long time .
27 She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips .
28 She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression .
29 She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said .
30 The woman stared at him for a few moments as she mulled over his offer .
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