Example sentences of "[vb pp] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 2 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 3 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 4 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 5 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
| 9 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 13 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 14 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |