Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 2 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 3 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 4 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 5 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 6 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 7 | The eyes seemed to be staring at him with peculiar intensity , as though he were a rare specimen whose every move must be observed . |