Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 2 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 3 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 4 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 5 | The guide came over , shouting at us in his strange dialect . |
| 6 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 7 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 8 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 9 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 10 | Rubbing his palm across her skin , he slipped his thumb under the top of her brief bikini panties , but as he did so , he made that same quick exclamation of surprise and moved away from her slightly , looking at her with his dark brows drawn sharply together . |
| 11 | To feel him touching her , to see him looking at her with his heart washed clean of all the old hatred . |
| 12 | He stood looking at her in his dark , gloomy way . |
| 13 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 14 | Young Donald was grinning at him with his new look of mockery . |
| 15 | Quigley pushed the seance table into the middle of the room , grinning at me over his shoulder as he did so . |
| 16 | He squinted at me through his spectacles . |
| 17 | Connon poked at it with his forefinger . |
| 18 | I mean , look at it from his point of view . |
| 19 | His collarbone ached , and he dug at it with his good arm , massaging the stiffness with his fingers . |
| 20 | Slowly he stripped the black thread from his fingers , peering at her through his glasses as if wondering who she was . |
| 21 | You could wheel in Julius Caesar and Pike would just sit there , peering at him through his gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 22 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 23 | McIllvanney did not respond , except to stare at me with his unblinking and reptilian eyes , and thus he forced me to add an unnecessary explanation . |
| 24 | Bentham arrived at it via his belief in the universality of reason and hence the possibility of correctly socialising man 's instinct for pleasure ; Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man 's consciousness of sin . |
| 25 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |
| 26 | A figure popped out of a doorway to Alexei 's left , and he cut at it with his sword and ran on . |
| 27 | Instead , he allowed the old man to usher him along and occasionally jab at him with his stick . |
| 28 | A squatting beggar wailed at us from his place beside an open sewer . |
| 29 | ‘ You … you little cheat ! ’ the father suddenly shouted , pointing at her with his finger . |
| 30 | Cursing , he thrust at it with his elbow and the glass shattered in fragments around him . |