Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I said and you all used to look at him as if he was bloody king
2 I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding .
3 Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game .
4 Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard .
5 as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows .
6 Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note .
7 The male Ixmaritians paid him little heed and seemed to look at him as if he was a freak , but two girls , who occupied the rooms next to his own , became his especial friends .
8 But even the children and chickens there seemed to look at him with suspicion .
9 Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking .
10 She turns to look at him in surprise .
11 Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him .
12 ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley .
13 ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain .
14 She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her .
15 Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind .
16 She began to thrust at him with her body ; their mingled breaths merged , their open mouths met , tongues touching .
17 She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger .
18 A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me .
19 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 .
20 Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters .
21 Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me .
22 They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her .
23 Bicker looked at him in surprise , and then nodded .
24 She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him .
25 On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him .
26 Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before .
27 She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth .
28 And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief .
29 How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god !
30 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
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