Example sentences of "[to-vb] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 2 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 3 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 4 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 5 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 6 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 7 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 8 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 9 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 10 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 11 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 12 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 13 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |