Example sentences of "shoot at [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 2 | Israeli security sources said the two Israeli civilians were driving towards Kiryat Arba near the Palestinian city of Hebron when they were shot at from a car . |
| 3 | The book has explained that , having been a murderer of unreliables for the Republicans , he was shot at by a rival and went straight back to Glasgow . ) |
| 4 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 5 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 6 | It was like being shot at by a sag-bag . |
| 7 | Later in the year the lantern of the Mid Swatch light buoy in the Thames Estuary was found peppered with holes made by shotgun pellets , while the Mucking No 5 buoy was extinguished after being shot at by an air rifle . |