Example sentences of "[vb past] at him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grauniad reckoned Vinny seemed totally confounded by the affection radiated at him by Elland Road and this had an effect on the game ! |
| 2 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 3 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 4 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 5 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 6 | She yowled at him in complaint . |
| 7 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 8 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 9 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 10 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 11 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 12 | A familiar but still timid stray cat peered at him from beneath a blackcurrant bush and howled piteously . |
| 13 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 14 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 15 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 19 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 20 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 21 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 22 | The bear roared at him with fury , its black muzzle and huge jaws covered in a thick white froth . |
| 23 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 24 | The boy seemed in pain , his lips drawn back from his teeth in what was almost a snarl , his whole body hunched into itself , as if something ate at him from within . |
| 25 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 26 | If they both came at him at once , from opposite sides , how would he deal with them ? |
| 27 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 28 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 29 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 30 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |