Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 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 Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking .
7 People turned to stare at her in the street .
8 He turned to look at me across the studio .
9 She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her .
10 She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger .
11 Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub .
12 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 .
13 When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush .
14 Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me .
15 He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way .
16 On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him .
17 But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes .
18 She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth .
19 And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief .
20 She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition .
21 Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment .
22 He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention .
23 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
24 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 .
25 If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him .
26 His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said .
30 David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end .
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