Example sentences of "at him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat .
2 He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity .
3 She smiled at him beguilingly and Claudia felt sick .
4 He looked at him squarely and said , ‘ Yes . ’
5 She looked at him again but this time there was no smile on her face .
6 Fabia felt it might be a touch cruel to laugh at him again but , feeling certain he would run a mile if she took him seriously , she was a little nonplussed about how to answer him .
7 ‘ Every time Subotica looked to have her beaten she came at him again and it was only in the last two strides that she lost .
8 Carey 's face gouted blood , shredding in strips as the rod came at him again and again , the hook trailing and tearing .
9 Tsu Ma laughed ; a soft , generous laughter that made her look up at him again and meet his eyes .
10 She looked at him again and saw this time that he was watching her .
11 ‘ Look lively , lads , ’ and ‘ Keep in step , ’ were the words Charlie had shouted at him again and again .
12 She looked at him again as he executed a slower turn , wobbling but upright .
13 Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space .
14 When the man bristled , she looked at him imploringly and he threw up his hands in a tirade of explosive Italian .
15 She glared at him furiously and threw the bag on to the ground in uncaring fury .
16 I looked at him helplessly and he vowed to return at ten .
17 She smiled at him cheerily and opened the gate as he got out of his car .
18 She looked at him wordlessly while wondering how to express the questions seething about in her mind , and at last she gathered sufficient courage to ask , ‘ Are there no women in your life , Silas ? ’
19 He walked off in front of her and Jenna had no choice at all ; she followed and only had time to glare at him reproachfully as he opened the door and stood aside for her , and then Marguerite was there .
20 Mahmoud looked at him intently and then suddenly relaxed .
21 Phil looked at him queerly and began to back off .
22 She had learnt that to be aroused he must see her mouth , and she looked up at him sweetly while holding his John Thomas between her lips , and sucking in her cheeks .
23 His Principal looked at him suspiciously when he asked for the day off , and he stuttered , ‘ She brought me up , you know . ’
24 The little horse was the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him in all his life , appearing like that in the torchlight and looking at him even before it was wholly born , as if to say , ‘ Hi , mate . ’
25 But standing in the blast of the storm and looking at him even though its ravaged eye sockets contained no eyes .
26 Jenna looked at him secretly and knew he would be no match for Alain Lemarchand at all .
27 I looked at him closely and I think he 's probably a vet .
28 The umpire turned to look at him mildly and murmured : ‘ Not out , you fat Australian bastard . ’
29 Jenna looked at him anxiously and he spun back to stare at her , anger on his face until he saw how pale and shaken she looked .
30 Talbot looked at him speculatively and pointed towards the north-west .
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