Example sentences of "at him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 2 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 3 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 4 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 5 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 6 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 7 | She looked at him as if to say : ‘ Truce ? ’ |
| 8 | Sam looked at him as if he were retarded . |
| 9 | The two Swiss stared at him as if he were mad ; but then a wild humour came into their ice-rimmed eyes . |
| 10 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 11 | It is true that , characteristically , he was about to cadge a lift ; but lift or no lift , most elevated academics of those ( and these ) days when accosted by some unknown student would look at him as if he were something deposited on the pavement in contravention of the local by laws . |
| 12 | Corbett looked away and gazed around ; the room had grown larger ; he turned and saw Thomas smiling at him as if through a haze . |
| 13 | He treated her to a brief flash of his identity card before tucking it away out of sight ; people were still gaping at him as if he were some alien from outer space . |
| 14 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 15 | He imagined the lodgers , who had mostly changed , to look at him as if he were a parasite , who should be working to support her . |
| 16 | He imagined the lodgers , who had mostly changed , to look at him as if he were a parasite , who should be working to support her . |
| 17 | The man looked at him as if he was mad . |
| 18 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 19 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 20 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |
| 21 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 22 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 23 | Michael stared at him as if he was mad . |
| 24 | They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ? |
| 25 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 26 | The first one looked at him as if to say ‘ Are you kidding ? ’ |
| 27 | In the dark she had hammered at him as if she were driving a spike . |
| 28 | I talked at him as if he could easily be normal . |
| 29 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 30 | Blanche looked at him as if he needed urgent psychiatric treatment . |