Example sentences of "at him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 2 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 3 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 4 | She looked at him with a challenging stare . |
| 5 | Finally , she came to stop beside him and looked up at him with a serious , troubled air . |
| 6 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 7 | She looked at him with a derisive little smile — the sort of smile a lamb might bestow on a wolf promising that being eaten alive wo n't hurt . |
| 8 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 9 | Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression . |
| 10 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 11 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 12 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 13 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
| 14 | She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter . |
| 15 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 16 | The man looked at him with a kindly face . |
| 17 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 18 | She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal . |
| 19 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 20 | Louise looked at him with a mock stern expression . |
| 21 | She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis . |
| 22 | Marks looked at him with a speculative eye . |
| 23 | A big , broad-shouldered man pushed between us to shout to someone on the street , gesturing at him with a huge banana . |
| 24 | She looked up at him with a sideways , almost shy glance . |
| 25 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 26 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |
| 27 | Ernie looked at him with a sheepish grin . |
| 28 | Ilbrec was silent at that , and Ruth looked at him with a quick tightening of anxiety . |
| 29 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 30 | She gazed at him with a worried frown . |