Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 2 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 3 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 6 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 7 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 8 | A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier . |
| 9 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 10 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 11 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
| 12 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 13 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 14 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 15 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 16 | All the weeds and nettles he screwed into the soil — and the earth took this ugliness , snatched at it with a sudden grip . |
| 17 | THE SCOTTISH bar was cleared yesterday of racial discrimination , a claim levelled at it by a Nigerian student . |