Example sentences of "at him [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 2 | Connors looked at him intently through the smoke haze as he reached out and switched on a tape recorder . |
| 3 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
| 4 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 5 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 6 | She let the clutch in and drove towards the road ; she waved at him out of the window . |
| 7 | The tree 's branches clutched at him out of the darkness and he floundered up in an attempt to get clear of them . |
| 8 | I looked at him out of the corner of my eye . |
| 9 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 10 | They glanced shyly at him out of the corner of their eyes and giggled , remembering his appeal of the night before . |
| 11 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |