Example sentences of "shoot at [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On the morning of the Melbourne Stakes , which was to be Phar Lap 's warm-up race for the Melbourne Cup three days later , he was shot at from the window of a car as he returned from exercise .
2 Since at heart these men were friendly to the Slav cause , Allied propaganda claimed that those who were posted to the east were always stationed in the most exposed positions , and at the slightest sign of wavering , or what might be termed ‘ treason ’ , were shot at from the rear .
3 I do n't want my lads shot at in the dark and yours do n't know the ground . ’
4 The last thing I would want to have to sell to my constituents is the idea that they should go into that bloody mess and be shot at by the bandits on both sides .
5 Gqozo 's claim that his troops had been shot at by the demonstrators ( ballistics evidence showed that the one dead Ciskei soldier was shot by his fellow soldiers ) .
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