Example sentences of "had [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 2 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 3 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 4 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 5 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 6 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 7 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 8 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 9 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 10 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 11 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 12 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 13 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 14 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 15 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 16 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 17 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |