Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 2 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 3 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 4 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 5 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 6 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 7 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 8 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 9 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 12 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 13 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 14 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 15 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 16 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 17 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 18 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 19 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 20 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 21 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 22 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 23 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 24 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 27 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 28 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 29 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |