Example sentences of "at him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian liked the names and was content to scratch the animals ' heads as , emitting a warm goaty smell , they gazed up at him with calculating yellow eyes . |
| 2 | Bissell looked hard at him with unblinking black hatred , then with pain . |
| 3 | Phil looked at him with bulging horror and searched around the metallic ward for some wood to touch , drumming his fingers at last in relief on the top of the locker . |
| 4 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 5 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 6 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |
| 7 | I was angry at the system , and at him for getting into trouble . |
| 8 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 9 | Rage at a fate which prevented her from screaming and railing at him for so misjudging her , rage at him for playing this cat-and-mouse game with her , rage at herself for letting him get away with it . |
| 10 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 11 | It is n't giving away much of the story to say that Miranda at first sees her mother 's behaviour — alternately doing everything she can to please her husband and then screaming rage at him for letting her down — as a clear example of women 's oppression . |
| 12 | Marcus Judge glared at him under beetling brows . |
| 13 | Billican looked over the rails at him on hearing his cries and replied quite dryly , " What the hell is he shouting about I 've drunk more beer than he 's swimming in " . |
| 14 | She looked at him without blinking and said they probably had been . |
| 15 | I can get no sense into him nor out of him , though I 've been at him without relenting for days . ’ |
| 16 | Charlotte gazes at him without speaking |
| 17 | Tom looked at him without saying anything . |
| 18 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied and looked at him without smiling . |
| 19 | Awake , she never looked at him without smiling . |
| 20 | She could n't even glance at him without feeling a little strange , and he never had any pleasant look on his face . |
| 21 | They stared at him in gathering alarm , while his own fears abated . |
| 22 | She stared at him in wondering exasperation . |
| 23 | April dipped her fingers into a paper cup of cider and flicked it at him before skipping away uphill . |
| 24 | She looked at him before going on , for she had been going to say , ‘ beat you up , ’ but she could n't imagine anyone attempting to beat this young fellow up . |