Example sentences of "at him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the arm of the girl who stared at him with shock-darkened eyes . |
| 2 | She looked at him with awful fascination because she had heard his wife was dying . |
| 3 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 4 | Look at him with that ball . |
| 5 | Look at him with that ball . |
| 6 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 7 | Mrs Files picked up a tea cloth , buried her face in it , laughing , then shook it at him with delighted outrage . |
| 8 | Wycliffe looked at him with greater attention . |
| 9 | They stared back at him with dull eyes . |
| 10 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 11 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 12 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 13 | Murtach looked at him with raised eyebrow . |
| 14 | Hari looked at him with raised eyebrows . |
| 15 | Tess followed him and stood there staring at him with dry eyes . |
| 16 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 17 | She glared at him with icy indignation . |
| 18 | She swallowed hard and waited for the ringing in her head to clear and for the room to steady once more , then , summoning all of her courage , she looked at him with icy contempt . |
| 19 | Bitterly aware of a deep tide of crimson flooding over her face and body , she could only glare back at him with deep loathing . |
| 20 | His brother looked up at him with mild interest . |
| 21 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 22 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 24 | She looked at him with hooded eyes . |
| 25 | Defensively she pushed his hand away , staring at him with dark-pupilled eyes , the clear grey irises ringed with silver . |
| 26 | Sarella looked at him with defiant eyes . |
| 27 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 28 | Something in his tone of voice made her look at him with new wariness . |
| 29 | It also impressed his sister , who quietened down and looked at him with new respect . |
| 30 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |