Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement , but they made no response . |
| 2 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 3 | Part of his speed-of-reflex training as a kung-fu master had been to evade , or divert with forearm blocks , spears flung at him by other trainees in the martial arts school . |
| 4 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |
| 5 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 6 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 7 | Nikos looked at him with scorn , scooped up the remaining papers and went out . |
| 8 | Two grey eyes looked at him through tears and he suddenly grinned , his eyes dancing . |
| 9 | Golden eyes looked at him from among the leaves of the yellow maple tree where Peach sat cleverly camouflaged . |
| 10 | For a moment the two gentlemen stared at him in perplexity , as he shook his head , bubbling over at some private joke , until he caught the puzzlement on both faces . |
| 11 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |
| 12 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 13 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Smith looked strained and defensive , as he began to field the balls thrown at him by correspondents from American , Greek , Portuguese , French and British news agencies . |
| 16 | The other officers looked at him with loathing . |
| 17 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
| 18 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 19 | Both of the chimps looked at him without reaction . |
| 20 | Mr Lawrie , who now lives at Dunshalt in Fife , has gone to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to clear his name following allegations levelled at him after the bank 's crash . |
| 21 | The Keeper of Secrets cut at him with its great claw . |
| 22 | The girls looked at him with wide-eyed hurt . |
| 23 | His ancestors stared at him from their portraits on the wall . |
| 24 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Both women looked at him in joint appeal and he marched to the door , pulling it open with unnecessary force . |
| 28 | He trembled to a stop as the others looked at him in mild surprise . |
| 29 | As he trotted his horse forward over the intervening space Lieutenant Stapleton noticed two giant white faces smiling at him with understanding and compassion . |
| 30 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |