Example sentences of "[adv prt] at him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridhe looked down at him with pity . |
| 2 | The three handsome giants looked down at him with wooden menace . |
| 3 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 4 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
| 5 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 6 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 7 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 8 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 9 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 10 | The man looked down at him from his perch in a beech-tree above the track , and laughed . |
| 11 | He looked up to see that she was smiling down at him in such a way that he could not help grinning in response . |
| 12 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 13 | I looked down at him in astonishment . |
| 14 | Chuck stared down at him in puzzlement for a moment . |
| 15 | When he managed to turn his eyes from them he saw Liessa glaring down at him in fury . |
| 16 | Her hand stilled as she looked down at him in outraged astonishment . |
| 17 | ‘ The draw from a loaded deck of cards , ’ he muttered darkly , and she glanced down at him in some surprise . |
| 18 | Ruth stared down at him in disbelief . |
| 19 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 20 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 22 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 23 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 24 | She looked up at him through her eyebrows and smiled . |
| 25 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 26 | She linked her arm in Louis 's , and looked up at him through her eyelashes . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 28 | His voice was raggedly urgent , and she gazed up at him through cloudy , unfocused eyes . |
| 29 | She gazed up at him through dazed , unfocused eyes . |
| 30 | She looked up at him through thick dark lashes . |