Example sentences of "at him [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 5 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 6 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 7 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 8 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 9 | Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget ! |
| 10 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 11 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 12 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 13 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 14 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 15 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |