Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at him as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 2 | ‘ What is it ? ’ she asked , looking back at him as if forcing herself to meet his eyes . |
| 3 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 4 | She thrust it back out again and scowled across at him as , with a smile , he handed her her coffee-cup . |
| 5 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 6 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 7 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |