Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife . |
| 2 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 3 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 4 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 5 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 6 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 7 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
| 8 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
| 9 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 10 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 11 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 12 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 13 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 14 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 15 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 16 | ‘ That when I ‘ dared ’ to so compel you , you flew out at me like the spirited filly you are under that demure exterior , ’ stated her ladyship with a quizzing look . |
| 17 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 18 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 19 | He looked up at me with a scowl , a scowl of surprise . |
| 20 | She looked up at me with a ‘ Why did you go ? ’ look in her eyes . |
| 21 | He looked up at me with a little grin operating on half his mouth only . |
| 22 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 23 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 24 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 25 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 26 | She looked back at me with no expression at all in her face , but her eyes were twice as big as usual , and I could see the tension in every muscle . |
| 27 | He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence . |