Example sentences of "at him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 2 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 3 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 4 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 5 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 6 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 7 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 8 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 9 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 10 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 11 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 12 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 13 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 14 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 15 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 16 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 17 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 18 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 19 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 20 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 21 | The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula . |
| 22 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 23 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 24 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 25 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 27 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 28 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 29 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 30 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |