Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 2 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 3 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 4 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 5 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 6 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 7 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 8 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 9 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 10 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 11 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 12 | Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub . |
| 13 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 14 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 15 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 16 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 17 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 18 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 19 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 20 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 21 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 22 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 23 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 24 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 25 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 28 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |