Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 2 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 3 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 4 | His mother looked at him for a moment without an expression on her face , then she smiled and waved her glass at him . |
| 5 | The thought of Harriet Shakespeare slipped into the thought of poor Keith standing awkward and miserable among his mess of papers , while his mother screamed at him for not being neat and ordinary , like Rachel . |