Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 2 | I 've looked at it on both sides , from different angles and colour is something to do with it . |
| 3 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 4 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 5 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 6 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 7 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 8 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 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 | He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule . |
| 11 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 12 | In the dark she had hammered at him as if she were driving a spike . |
| 13 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 14 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 15 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 16 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
| 17 | He is 90 now , so deaf that we had to shout at him to be heard , so old that he speaks only Turkish , the language of his oppressors . |
| 18 | Recognising our differences , we have laughed at them with ‘ There was an Englishman , Irishman and a Scotsman ’ type of jokes . |
| 19 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 20 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |
| 21 | The person who had nearly strangled her had come at her from behind . |
| 22 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 23 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 24 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 25 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 26 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 27 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 28 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 29 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 30 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |