Example sentences of "him [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him gazing amorously at those twin orbs , as white as marble , and as plump as pigeons . |
| 2 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 3 | It is a nuisance and an invitation for him to look again at other forms of travel . |
| 4 | A young doctor , making an emergency call in Bal Lane , had seen him trudging home at 2.30 in the morning , looking like a drowned rat . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
| 7 | ‘ You know better than most , Naylor , that there were some nights when I could n't bear to let him go home at all ! ’ |
| 8 | ( 116 ) I have known him to get up at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , from what Goibniu said , I rather think they do n't expect him to get back at all . ’ |
| 10 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 11 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 12 | Then he appeared from the gate at the far side , and she could see him smiling even at that distance . |