Example sentences of "back at him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 2 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 3 | Hitler had talked of an offer ‘ in the name of reason ’ , and Halifax threw it back at him as a ‘ summons to capitulate to his will ’ . |
| 4 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 5 | It was as if she were suddenly bewitched , her words spat back at him through a mask of hatred . |
| 6 | They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness . |
| 7 | Talk of this sort was mostly to raise morale , as McFarlane was at pains to say when his ‘ Secretary of State ’ remark was thrown back at him at the hearings . |
| 8 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 9 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |
| 10 | Joseph grinned ruefully back at him for a moment , then sensing the senator was warming to a familiar theme , he picked up a history of French Indochina that lay open on the table before him and sank down in his chair behind it . |
| 11 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 12 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 13 | She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis . |
| 14 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 15 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 16 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 17 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 19 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 20 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 21 | He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium . |
| 22 | When I turned to look back at him after a short canter , he was winded and scared with barely enough strength to stay on his horse . |
| 23 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 24 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 25 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |