Example sentences of "at him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end it was the regular-footer Elkerton 's ability to hit for six every type of wave — leg-breaks , off-breaks , googlies , head-severing bouncers — that the Pacific could bowl at him that gave him supremacy . |
| 2 | Try to avoid shouting at him or upsetting him emotionally . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll sort it out , ’ he assured her callously as they entered the building , and she suppressed an urge to hit out at him and tell him exactly what he had done and was doing to her . |
| 4 | A different , vaster , sickly eye was staring at him and daring him : the glowing nebulosity where space and unspace wove together . |
| 5 | Graham took a step towards her but the English-speaking Arab levelled the pistol menacingly at him and ordered him to remain where he was . |
| 6 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 7 | The old lady frowned at him and asked him sharply what his name was and he sat up straight but he answered cheekily . |
| 8 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 9 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 10 | She looked across at him and told him frankly , ‘ I fear you simply bring out the worst in me . ’ |
| 11 | I looked at him and wished I could be so unconcerned . |
| 12 | Dad was told how naughty James had been and then shouted at him and sent him to the bedroom . |
| 13 | Mum scowled at him and slapped him hard across the face . |
| 14 | Grief had swung at him and given him two red eyes . |
| 15 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |
| 16 | Maria paused , looking at him and loving him so much it hurt . |
| 17 | erm James and Alex and Danny laughing at him and thinking he 's funny because they all fancy him |
| 18 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Police surgeons have looked at him and said it 's safe to detain him in a police cell . ’ |
| 20 | She looked back at him and challenged him , ‘ What 's wrong with his behaviour regarding Silvia ? ’ |
| 21 | Anna was so frightened she grew furiously angry with Peter and screamed at him and accused him of putting God before herself and the children . |
| 22 | Malik practically ran at him and grabbed him by the lapels . |
| 23 | One evening , after a particularly violent fight , when she threw things at him and chased him out of the house , he went for a walk alone through the town . |
| 24 | She spun round to glare at him and found him much too close , his eyes burning down at her . |
| 25 | ‘ Does yer mother know yer out ? ’ shouted one of the lads and then all at once they charged at him and manhandled him to the ground . |
| 26 | A girl seated inside the box-office smiled at him and handed him a ticket . |
| 27 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 28 | Then they made fun of him in mock homage , spitting at him and hitting him . |
| 29 | Auriega advanced the length of the corridor , stopping in front of each man , screaming at him and hitting him . |
| 30 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |