Example sentences of "at him [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anger and resentment expressed at every level , from street vendor to middle-class intellectual , was almost entirely directed at Washington , not at him as an individual American . |
| 2 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 3 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 4 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 5 | The old gentleman looked at him with an expression of dislike . |
| 6 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 7 | She looked at him with an air of apology . |
| 8 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 9 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 10 | Burger looked at him with an odd expression . |
| 11 | His grandmother was clutching his arm , smiling at him with an almost girlish pleasure . |
| 12 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 13 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 14 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 15 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 16 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 18 | But she snapped , ‘ I 'm not tired , I 'm not , ’ glaring at him like an enemy , and he felt a sour weariness at the prospect of the long , white night ahead of them . |
| 19 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |