Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 3 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 4 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 5 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 6 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 7 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 8 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 9 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 10 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 11 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 12 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 13 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 14 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 15 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 16 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 18 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 20 | Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas |
| 21 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 22 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 23 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 24 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 25 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 26 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 27 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 28 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 29 | A large bird , a crow as far as she could tell , flapped up from picking at something on the ground and wheeled away high above her . |
| 30 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |