Example sentences of "[v-ing] at him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 3 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 4 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 7 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 11 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 12 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 13 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 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 | A windy night , is n't it ? ’ he says — which is self-evident as you shiver , peering at him past the security chain on the door while struggling to keep yourself decent . |
| 16 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 17 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 18 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 22 | Aaron , Benstede 's man , glaring at him through the crowd at the banquet in the castle while Benstede looked reproachfully at him . |
| 23 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
| 24 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |
| 25 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 26 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 29 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 30 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |