Example sentences of "at him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 34 | On Aug. 16 Solzhenitsyn issued a statement repudiating the restoration of his citizenship because the decree failed to address the accusation of treason levelled at him at the time of his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 . |
| 35 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 36 | Aaron , Benstede 's man , glaring at him through the crowd at the banquet in the castle while Benstede looked reproachfully at him . |
| 37 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 38 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 39 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , I — ’ She stopped and did her best to get a really good look at him through the fog . |
| 40 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 41 | The man mouths at him through the glass . |
| 42 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 43 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
| 44 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness . |
| 47 | Maisie took a ten-pound note from Robert 's pocket and waved it at him through the glass . |
| 48 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 49 | She pressed it against herself , squinting at him through the darkness . |
| 50 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 51 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 52 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 53 | Ashley frowned at him along the length of the sofa . |
| 54 | As she looked across at him during the game to see him , chin propped on his hand , his whole face a mask of concentration , but paradoxically , at the same time , as relaxed and self-forgetful as she had ever known him , it was plain how handsome he must once have been . |
| 55 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 56 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 57 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 58 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 59 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 60 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |