Example sentences of "at him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Donald was grinning at him with his new look of mockery . |
| 2 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 3 | Instead , he allowed the old man to usher him along and occasionally jab at him with his stick . |
| 4 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 5 | ‘ I say , sir , ’ said Pickerage , looking up at him with his Puck face , ‘ do n't you think that 's a bit exaggerated ? |
| 6 | And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms . |
| 7 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 8 | The traffic he had cut into blared at him for his boorish behaviour . |
| 9 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 10 | They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain . |
| 11 | You could wheel in Julius Caesar and Pike would just sit there , peering at him through his gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 12 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 13 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 14 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 15 | The man looked down at him from his perch in a beech-tree above the track , and laughed . |
| 16 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 18 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 19 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |
| 20 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 21 | I might cock a snook at him behind his back but I would n't dash into his path making the victory sign . ’ |
| 22 | But if you just gaze at him in his entirety , without looking at anything in particular , you will see every move he makes , as he makes it . |
| 23 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |