Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 3 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 7 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 8 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 12 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 15 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 16 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 17 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 18 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 19 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 20 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 21 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 24 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 25 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 26 | They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ? |
| 27 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 28 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |