Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flourished the bloody sword at them in a mocking salute , then trotted back to the road . |
| 2 | But in a book he 's written he 's had a real big pop at me in a sour way . |
| 3 | A swarthy fellow with ringlets was taking a slash at her with a heavy cutlass . |
| 4 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |
| 5 | The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula . |
| 6 | He half-levelled the rifle at me in a menacing way . |
| 7 | Bessie chuckled and waved her hand at him in a dismissing gesture . |
| 8 | Ronni shot her response at him like a reflex action , a little guiltily aware that it had rather less to do with the truth and rather more to do with her sudden need for a shield . |
| 9 | But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up . |
| 10 | We will just ask you can we have a look at it for a few days . |
| 11 | Well let's have a look at it from a simplistic point of view , Okay . |
| 12 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
| 13 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |
| 14 | AN 87-year-old woman ditched her toyboy husband after he threw an ashtray at her in a blazing row , a court heard yesterday . |