Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 2 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 3 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 4 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 5 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 6 | Fabbiano was standing in front of her , staring at her like a disapproving schoolmaster . |
| 7 | He pronounced took like a curse , and mimed the bad men looking by jutting his head forward and glaring at her like a demented goldfish . |
| 8 | A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier . |
| 9 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 10 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 11 | The rest of the group stared at us like a hanging jury before sentence is passed . |
| 12 | Franks looked at him like a round-eyed baby . |
| 13 | It nagged at her like an aching tooth . |
| 14 | Salt was scowling at her like a dried prune . |
| 15 | It gnawed at her like a ravenous animal . |
| 16 | He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force . |
| 17 | He stood and glared at me like a mad dog . |
| 18 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 19 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |