Example sentences of "at he [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 2 | He felt the Italian boy was going to have a go at him but I do n't know whether it was a punch or a head-butt . ’ |
| 3 | You should have seen the butter he put on his toast in the mornings , I kept on at him but you know what he was like , he would n't be told . |
| 4 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 5 | She waved at him but he did n't wave back . |
| 6 | I smiled at him but he did n't smile back . |
| 7 | Maggie glared at him but he bent again and locked the Porsche , pocketing the key and shrugging into a thick leather jacket . |
| 8 | When Wexford got home for his tea Clytemnestra wagged her darning-wool tail at him but she did n't get out of his chair . |
| 9 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 10 | She smiled up at him while she ran her fingers lightly over his muscled shoulders and back . |
| 11 | She had told him a tale , looking slyly at him while she played with his left hand . |
| 12 | As she stared down at him while he cleared up the mess , she wondered why she felt so outmanoeuvred . |
| 13 | Sometimes his mother chased him through the apartment , striking at him while he dodged and ducked , crying , ‘ Look out Mom , look out now ! |
| 14 | The old steward came hurrying up , huffing and puffing , but Carey snarled at him so he slunk away . |
| 15 | He claimed that Mr Maltby lunged at him so he punched him , knocking him to the ground . |
| 16 | Helen touched Tony 's arm and looked pleadingly at him so he turned and shook hands with Frank then turned back immediately to Terry . |
| 17 | Tony thought the man was coming back for him because he 'd squirted water at him so he hid , but the man waved to Denise and she waved back . |
| 18 | Have a look at him before you go . " |
| 19 | He had caught her looking sharply at him when she thought he would n't notice . |
| 20 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |
| 21 | ‘ Eddie Tonks ( New Zealand Rugby Football Union chairman ) was sitting behind me and I turned and looked at him and we eyed each other . |
| 22 | You look at him and you think |
| 23 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 24 | I look at him — when I can bear to and frankly if you can persuade him to use a clean T-shirt you 'll be doing all of us a favour — I look at him and I remember dear little chubby hands clutching one , and the way their faces used to smell of soap and milk . |
| 25 | ‘ Fuck you , ’ the Maggot screamed at whoever fired at him and I looked out of the Beechcraft 's side window to see palm trees going past at over 150 miles an hour and above us . |
| 26 | I looked up at him and I thought , here 's a human in a human 's room , doing human things . |
| 27 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 28 | Well to be quite , to be quite honestly sweety , I mean , I look at him and I think I 'm not unfond of him |
| 29 | I shone my torch at him and he made a face like he had just chewed a lemon : ‘ I 'm going to have to pull from higher up — I guess it 's the knot . ’ |
| 30 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |