Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me .
3 She stood looking at me from the end of the bed .
4 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 .
5 Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face .
6 So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other .
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