Example sentences of "had [verb] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
2 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
3 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
4 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
5 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
6 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
7 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
8 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |