Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 2 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 7 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 8 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 11 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 12 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 13 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 14 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 18 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 19 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 21 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 22 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 23 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 24 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 25 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 26 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 27 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |