Example sentences of "[verb] at he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 2 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 5 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 6 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 8 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 9 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 10 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 12 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 13 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 15 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 16 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 17 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 18 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 19 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 20 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 21 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 22 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 23 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 26 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 27 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 28 | A windy night , is n't it ? ’ he says — which is self-evident as you shiver , peering at him past the security chain on the door while struggling to keep yourself decent . |
| 29 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |