Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grauniad reckoned Vinny seemed totally confounded by the affection radiated at him by Elland Road and this had an effect on the game ! |
| 2 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 3 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 4 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 5 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 6 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 7 | I was ashamed of him , especially as I could see Estella laughing at me over Miss Havisham 's shoulder . |
| 8 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 9 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 10 | Because I did n't want , because I did n't want people laughing at me like everyone 's here laughing at you . |
| 11 | ‘ Does the moon shine in the night sky ? ’ she mocked shakily , laughing at him through her tears . |
| 12 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 13 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 14 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 15 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 16 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 17 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't glare at me like that ! |
| 19 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 20 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 21 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 22 | She yowled at him in complaint . |
| 23 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 24 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 25 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
| 26 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 27 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 28 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 29 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 30 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |