Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Keeper of Secrets cut at him with its great claw . |
| 2 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 3 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 4 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
| 5 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 6 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | had a lot of stuff thrown at you in one go . |
| 9 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 10 | Six or seven of us were spread out on the grass toasting ourselves when we gradually became aware of a small knot of people gazing at us from across the field through a gap in the hedge , a knot which grew steadily larger all the time . |
| 11 | On Aug. 16 Solzhenitsyn issued a statement repudiating the restoration of his citizenship because the decree failed to address the accusation of treason levelled at him at the time of his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 . |
| 12 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 13 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 14 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 15 | With Luke looking at her like that , a combination of desire and disgust hardening his features and his mouth somehow more richly sensual than it had looked before , Maria had no difficulty believing him . |
| 16 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 17 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 18 | The need for Dinah gnawed at him like bodily hunger . |