Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [coord] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This blow was not aimed at me but at the Church . |
| 2 | The senator was again not looking at me but at the sea , and his voice was immensely sad . |
| 3 | I was flicking the coal dust from my trousers and trying to look unconcerned when I saw Wesley Binks doubled up with mirth , pointing triumphantly at me and at the hole over the cellar . |
| 4 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 5 | She smiled at me and in the dark her mouth seemed covered in blood , and looking at her , I felt sick , disgusted with her , with myself , with everything . |
| 6 | If you spread the group up and as far as you 're concerned there 's only a couple of guys looking at you and within the group more supportive than just one big body and if you 're feeling comfortable then the chances are you retain more information and part information to not just sat there . |
| 7 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 8 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 9 | He swore at it and at the siren still wailing as frantically as ever outside . |
| 10 | To give herself time to think , she dribbled some sea water onto the hare from a half-pot , lifted thankfully from the clachan rubbish heaps ; and looked at it and round the hut afresh . |
| 11 | He needed to have two goes at it and in the end made a good five . |