Example sentences of "[v-ing] at him [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 6 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 7 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 10 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 13 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 14 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 15 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 16 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 21 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 24 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 25 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 26 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 27 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 28 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 29 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 30 | 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 . |