Example sentences of "at him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 3 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 4 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 7 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 10 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 11 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 12 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 13 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 14 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 15 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 16 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On Aug. 16 Solzhenitsyn issued a statement repudiating the restoration of his citizenship because the decree failed to address the accusation of treason levelled at him at the time of his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 . |
| 19 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 20 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 21 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , I — ’ She stopped and did her best to get a really good look at him through the fog . |
| 23 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 24 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 28 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The man mouths at him through the glass . |