Example sentences of "be [verb] at him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 3 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 4 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 5 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 6 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 7 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 8 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |
| 9 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 10 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 11 | The eyes seemed to be staring at him with peculiar intensity , as though he were a rare specimen whose every move must be observed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 15 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 16 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 17 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 18 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 19 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 20 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 21 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 22 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 23 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 24 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |
| 25 | No one moved , they were staring at him in astonishment . |
| 26 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 27 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 28 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 29 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |
| 30 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |