Example sentences of "at [pron] [coord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put out her tongue at me and went to the kitchen . |
| 2 | People smiled at me and sang in the streets . |
| 3 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 4 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 5 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 6 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
| 7 | Maybe it 's partly due to that air of arrogant hauteur you have , but I find it quite unbearably exciting to look at you and know of the passion that 's lurking underneath . |
| 8 | The shop-woman smiled at her and asked after the bereaved family . |
| 9 | Jenna grinned at her and got into the car , looking around with pleasure as Marguerite reversed from the garage and turned to the track . |
| 10 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 11 | Scott looked up at him and motioned towards the policeman . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry . |
| 13 | She stole an anxious look at him and withered from the frosty blast of his basilisk stare . |
| 14 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 15 | Robyn looked at him and flirted with the idea of telling him where to get off . |
| 16 | She halted , hesitated , flicked a glance at him and saw from the surprised look on his face that he was putting his own interpretation on why she was scurrying to her room . |
| 17 | Carrie smiled at him and hurried down the stairs . |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |