Example sentences of "[verb] at him from [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 Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car .
3 An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range .
6 He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path .
7 He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches .
8 The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture .
9 She waved at him from the door and went down to the street .
10 A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away .
11 But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews .
12 Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round .
13 They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls .
14 They stopped and looked at him from a little distance .
15 Nobody looked at him from the windows .
16 So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other .
17 But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them .
18 He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway .
19 She smiled at him from the opposite stool .
20 Then , on March 13th , he was tackled by two planes at once , firing at him from a range of ten yards .
21 But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street .
22 Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me .
23 " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth .
24 His name was called , and he turned his head and saw Lavinia waving at him from the porch .
25 He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat .
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