Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | but there 's an organ is Sussex they want him to look at and erm so he said well send me a photograph er they 've got a photograph of it you see |
| 2 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 3 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 4 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 5 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 6 | Across the table her younger son , Joseph , saw her cheeks burn , and she looked up to find him gazing at her in mystification . |
| 7 | She spun round , startled , at the sound of Jake 's voice , to find him standing at her elbow , blue eyes dark with condemnation as they looked down into her face . |
| 8 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 9 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
| 10 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 11 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 12 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 13 | Sometimes the Captain caught him staring at him fixedly , willing him to get the case under Instruction . |
| 14 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 15 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
| 16 | Gulping down a breath , she lifted her lids — and found him looking at her . |
| 17 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 18 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 19 | Whilst he has this weight advantage ( you get with youth ) Id let him run at defenders but especially the 2 central ones . |
| 20 | What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak . |
| 21 | Too often she had caught him looking at her breasts . |
| 22 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 23 | He is a systems analyst , and his work is driving him spare at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't like this conversation , if you do n't mind , ’ Jenna said primly , wanting him to stop at all costs . |
| 25 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 26 | Culley imagined him looking at his notes . |
| 27 | She could feel him looking at her . |
| 28 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 29 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 30 | At last she had made him look at her ! |