Example sentences of "at him like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 2 | The thin man niggled at him like a flea in the hide of a rhinoceros . |
| 3 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 4 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 5 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
| 6 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 7 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 8 | ‘ This clot , ’ boomed the Headmistress , pointing the riding-crop at him like a rapier , ‘ this black-head , this foul carbuncle , this poisonous pustule that you see before you is none other than a disgusting criminal , a denizen of the underworld , a member of the Mafia ! ’ |
| 9 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 10 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 11 | Franks looked at him like a round-eyed baby . |
| 12 | ‘ Talking about matters of import , ’ Riven said absently , though uneasiness buzzed at him like a fly . |
| 13 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 15 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 16 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 17 | Ronni shot her response at him like a reflex action , a little guiltily aware that it had rather less to do with the truth and rather more to do with her sudden need for a shield . |
| 18 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 19 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |