Example sentences of "[vb pp] at him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 2 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |
| 3 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 4 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
| 5 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 6 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 7 | On Aug. 16 Solzhenitsyn issued a statement repudiating the restoration of his citizenship because the decree failed to address the accusation of treason levelled at him at the time of his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 . |
| 8 | 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 . |