Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turns to look at him in surprise . |
| 2 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 3 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 4 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 5 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 6 | She began to thrust at him with her body ; their mingled breaths merged , their open mouths met , tongues touching . |
| 7 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 8 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 9 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 10 | He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule . |
| 11 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 12 | In the dark she had hammered at him as if she were driving a spike . |
| 13 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 14 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She continued to stare at him in silence , waiting for further explanation . |
| 17 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 18 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |