Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 32 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 33 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 34 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
| 35 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 36 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 37 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 38 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 39 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 40 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 41 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 42 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 43 | He squinted at me through his spectacles . |
| 44 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 45 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 46 | His collarbone ached , and he dug at it with his good arm , massaging the stiffness with his fingers . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 48 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 49 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 50 | ‘ You will not , ’ he barked at her with barely controlled fury . |
| 51 | How dared he look at her like that ? |
| 52 | ‘ But must he look at me as if I am the murderer ? ’ |
| 53 | He stares at you in raptures . |
| 54 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 55 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 56 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 57 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 58 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 59 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 60 | Cursing , he thrust at it with his elbow and the glass shattered in fragments around him . |