Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 3 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 4 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 5 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 6 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 7 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 8 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 9 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 10 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 11 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 12 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 13 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 16 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 17 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |
| 20 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 21 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
| 22 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
| 23 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
| 24 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 25 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 26 | We have values of 80 per cent thrown at us for a fish which , when feeding on natural food , ingests about 80 per cent water and around 7 per cent protein ! |
| 27 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 28 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 29 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 30 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |