Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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1 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
2 | He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal . |
3 | I say it again and the man looks at me a bit angry like . |
4 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
5 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
6 | Paige found just looking at him a very heady experience . |
7 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
8 | Right , so er yeah , I was looking at her a couple of cheapies in there . |
9 | It 's just sort of looking at 'em a bit . |
10 | Looking at it a different way , having decided not to attempt to save China by its efforts , there was only a faint hope that the US could save Vietnam by its example — as a successful democracy . |
11 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
12 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |
13 | The smaller of them seemed to stare at her a moment , then turn to the other and nod . |
14 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
15 | In fact , she continued to look at me a bit strangely during the remainder of my stay in that department ! |
16 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
17 | I do n't say nothing to her — I just stare at her a bit . |
18 | Rather shamefacely Carter waved at him a stick with ribbons and bells on . |
19 | She stared at him a moment , then understood . |
20 | Berdichev stopped and stared at him a moment . |
21 | Tolonen stared at him a moment , nodding , his lips pressed tightly together , his earnest grey eyes looking out from a face carved like granite . |
22 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
23 | The old man stared at him a moment , then nodded . |
24 | Karr stared at him a moment , then laughed . |
25 | She stared at him a long while , then shrugged . |
26 | Sara stared at him a little blankly . |
27 | Fran stared at him a puzzled frown marring her smooth brow . |
28 | He stared at her a moment , his eyes confused , pained . |
29 | He too stared at her a lot , but in pity , it seemed , not lust . |
30 | Ward stared at her a moment . |