Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would glower at me over his jowls and tease with expressions like , ‘ Thinks she 's china and she 's pot-mould , ’ or , ‘ Thinks she 's a race-horse and she 's a pit-pony . ’ |
| 2 | He flashed a glittering glance at her as if he felt her eyes on him and his gaze ran slowly over her face . |
| 3 | It was deliberately provocative because she was disappointed that he was back to antagonism after yesterday , and he shot a startled glance at her before giving a low , dark laugh . |
| 4 | He sneaked a glance at her from beneath his brows , his head still lowered . |
| 5 | Owen waited as usual for her to recover , talking quietly meanwhile with Jane Postlethwaite , who stole a glance at her from time to time , sympathetic and concerned but also slightly at a loss . |
| 6 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 7 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 8 | Finch handed the photograph to Miller , who did no more than glance at it before passing it on to Golding and muttering : ‘ Could be anywhere . ’ |
| 9 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 10 | Ludo swung his club at him with all that strength he hardly knows he possesses . |
| 11 | Rage at a fate which prevented her from screaming and railing at him for so misjudging her , rage at him for playing this cat-and-mouse game with her , rage at herself for letting him get away with it . |
| 12 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 13 | The first wife to reach the tee exclaimed , ‘ Ugh — what 's this disgusting object ! ’ and promptly took a swipe at it with her club . |
| 14 | ‘ Why — is he going away quite soon ? ’ asked Felicity in dismay , and Breeze could only gaze at her in astonishment . |
| 15 | But if you just gaze at him in his entirety , without looking at anything in particular , you will see every move he makes , as he makes it . |
| 16 | Since it was Dane 's name on the hoardings which had sold out the theatre on opening night and for several weeks to come , Josh 's kindness brought a painful lump to her throat , and she could only gaze at him in mute gratitude . |
| 17 | Polish it with care , and gaze at it with pleasure . |
| 18 | She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her . |
| 19 | Lineker says : ‘ It really started , if Graham 's honest , when he had a dig at me about the Republic of Ireland game at Wembley , when I did a piece with one of the newspapers saying I was a bit tired . |
| 20 | ‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press . |
| 21 | Well , when you sort of fire a very broad question at me like that I 'm not quite sure what to say because there are lots of women 's liberation movements ; there are lots of women who are interested in feminism broadly defined . |
| 22 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 23 | Well as long as you know about yours and then when she does direct the question at you about that particular |
| 24 | THE woman juror whose looks prompted a man to wolf-whistle at her in court yesterday said she was secretly flattered and took it as a compliment . |
| 25 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 26 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 27 | He flourished the bloody sword at them in a mocking salute , then trotted back to the road . |
| 28 | But in a book he 's written he 's had a real big pop at me in a sour way . |
| 29 | Then he noticed the dark eyes , smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair . |
| 30 | Marius jerked his head at them in disapproval but I liked their Romany appeal . |