Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone beamed at her . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone got at me , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
| 4 | It seemed as if she could n't do anything right and everyone grumbled at her . |
| 5 | This time the tray is brought into the room and everyone looks at it . |
| 6 | When everyone looks at you expectantly and everything you do is significant , when men defer and women give you cool , appraising glances ? |
| 7 | Everyone looks at you , I 'm sure , and thinks : an Indian boy , how exotic , how interesting , what stories of aunties and elephants we 'll hear now from him . |
| 8 | I tell you I take off when I go out now , because , everyone looks at you . |
| 9 | I can still remember the humiliation I felt as I heard everyone laughing at me , and my brother laughing the loudest of all . |
| 10 | I grin at her . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone got at you . ’ |
| 12 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 13 | I gazed at them hopelessly . |
| 14 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
| 15 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
| 16 | I felt really emotional as I gazed at her , realising how fast my pretty little girl was growing up . |
| 17 | I gazed at her , thinking that if she had appeared gentler I might have ventured to say something to her on Victor 's behalf . |
| 18 | I gazed at him as though intent |
| 19 | I gazed at him beseechingly . |
| 20 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 21 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
| 22 | Why should I laugh at you ? ’ |
| 23 | Why am I firing at it ? |
| 24 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 25 | and even when I yell at him times he 's gone , you know , I do n't know |
| 26 | I shouted at him , ‘ Ya , Zebbie the Coalpicker ’ , and he chased me with an axe to our back door . |
| 27 | ‘ You are like Pontius Pilate , ’ I shouted at him . |
| 28 | I shouted at him and he went mad . |
| 29 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 30 | ‘ Because I shouted at them . |