Example sentences of "[verb] at him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grauniad reckoned Vinny seemed totally confounded by the affection radiated at him by Elland Road and this had an effect on the game ! |
| 2 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 3 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 4 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 5 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 6 | ‘ Does the moon shine in the night sky ? ’ she mocked shakily , laughing at him through her tears . |
| 7 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 8 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 9 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 10 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 11 | She yowled at him in complaint . |
| 12 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 13 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 14 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 15 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 16 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 17 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 18 | A familiar but still timid stray cat peered at him from beneath a blackcurrant bush and howled piteously . |
| 19 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 22 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 23 | Paul looks at him in surprise : ‘ Why , that 's the Eiffel Tower ! ’ |
| 24 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 25 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 26 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 27 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 28 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 29 | The thin , capable woman who was taking the riding-class looked at him in amazement as he leaned panting on the gate to the ring , the dog whining beside him . |
| 30 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |