Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pers pn] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 2 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 5 | He pronounced took like a curse , and mimed the bad men looking by jutting his head forward and glaring at her like a demented goldfish . |
| 6 | He stood and glared at me like a mad dog . |
| 7 | I knew the joy of the world and wondered at it like a child . |