Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of his speed-of-reflex training as a kung-fu master had been to evade , or divert with forearm blocks , spears flung at him by other trainees in the martial arts school . |
| 2 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 3 | What excuse have SSDs for having achieved so little , despite the vast amount of cash hurled at them by successive governments since the early 1970s ? |
| 4 | had a lot of stuff thrown at you in one go . |
| 5 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 6 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 7 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
| 8 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |