Example sentences of "at him like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 2 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 3 | The thin man niggled at him like a flea in the hide of a rhinoceros . |
| 4 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The need for Dinah gnawed at him like bodily hunger . |
| 8 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't look straight at him like that , ’ Nick said . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 14 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 15 | Franks looked at him like a round-eyed baby . |
| 16 | ‘ Talking about matters of import , ’ Riven said absently , though uneasiness buzzed at him like a fly . |
| 17 | In the room the other faces stared up at him like a theatre crowd . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She nodded wordlessly , while staring up at him like a hypnotised rabbit . |
| 21 | The Peacock gazed at him like Susanna in ‘ Le Nozze di Figaro ’ waiting for the Count to give tongue . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 26 | Nothing compared to what her heart did when she looked at him like that . |
| 27 | What are you looking at him like that for ? |
| 28 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 29 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 30 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |