Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
2 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
3 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
4 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
5 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
6 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
7 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
8 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
9 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |
10 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |