Example sentences of "at him from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 2 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
| 3 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 4 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 5 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 6 | People kept waving warnings at him from a distance . ’ |
| 7 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 8 | A HOTEL employee was burned when flames shot out at him from a log fire he was stoking . |
| 9 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 10 | Then , on March 13th , he was tackled by two planes at once , firing at him from a range of ten yards . |
| 11 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 12 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 13 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 14 | Hector trusted him to guard his back , and concentrated on the men poking spears at him from the front and sides . |
| 15 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 16 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 18 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 19 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 20 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
| 21 | Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget ! |
| 22 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 23 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 24 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 25 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 26 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 27 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 28 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 29 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 30 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |