Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 32 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 33 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 34 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 35 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 38 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 39 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 40 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 41 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 42 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 43 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 44 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 45 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 46 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 47 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 48 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 49 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 50 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 51 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 52 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ? |
| 55 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 56 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 60 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |