Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] [art] " 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 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 6 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 7 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 8 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 9 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 10 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 11 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 12 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 13 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 14 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 15 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 16 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 17 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 20 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 21 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 24 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 25 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 26 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 27 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 28 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 29 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 30 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |