Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 4 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 5 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 8 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 9 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 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 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 13 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 14 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 15 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 16 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 17 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 20 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 23 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 24 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 25 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 26 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 27 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 28 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 29 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 30 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |