Example sentences of "[verb] at him for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 2 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 3 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 4 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 5 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 6 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 7 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 8 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 9 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 10 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 11 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 12 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
| 13 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 14 | Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him . |
| 15 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |
| 16 | Paul Devraux grinned at him for a moment , then raised a cynical eyebrow . |
| 17 | and went and sat in the corner of the bathroom and went , scowled at him for a bit ! |
| 18 | Annie glanced at him for guidance , but receiving none , made no reply . |
| 19 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 20 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 21 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 22 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 23 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 24 | The thought of Harriet Shakespeare slipped into the thought of poor Keith standing awkward and miserable among his mess of papers , while his mother screamed at him for not being neat and ordinary , like Rachel . |
| 25 | Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it . |
| 26 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 27 | Alec stared at him for a few seconds , then walked out into the heat and glare of the mid-day sun . |
| 28 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 29 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 30 | The face stared at him for a moment , and then looked away . |