Example sentences of "[adv prt] at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
| 2 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 3 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 4 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 5 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 6 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 7 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 8 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 9 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 11 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 12 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 13 | She stopped fighting , blinking up at him through a mass of tangled hair , her eyes wild , her breath coming in convulsive gasps . |
| 14 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 16 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
| 17 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 18 | She looked up at him with a sideways , almost shy glance . |
| 19 | Finally , she came to stop beside him and looked up at him with a serious , troubled air . |
| 20 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 21 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
| 22 | She looked up at him with a falsely bright smile , then wished she had n't . |
| 23 | She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter . |
| 24 | She looked up at him with a slightly worried expression , put out her hand as though to catch hold of him , and slipped to the floor in a faint . |
| 25 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
| 26 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 27 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 28 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 29 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 30 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |