Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If we had scored first , it would have been a better game because it would have forced them to come at us . |
2 | I grin at her . |
3 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
4 | I gazed at them hopelessly . |
5 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
6 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
7 | I felt really emotional as I gazed at her , realising how fast my pretty little girl was growing up . |
8 | I gazed at her , thinking that if she had appeared gentler I might have ventured to say something to her on Victor 's behalf . |
9 | I gazed at him as though intent |
10 | I gazed at him beseechingly . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
13 | Why should I laugh at you ? ’ |
14 | Why am I firing at it ? |
15 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
16 | and even when I yell at him times he 's gone , you know , I do n't know |
17 | I shouted at him , ‘ Ya , Zebbie the Coalpicker ’ , and he chased me with an axe to our back door . |
18 | ‘ You are like Pontius Pilate , ’ I shouted at him . |
19 | I shouted at him and he went mad . |
20 | 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 … |
21 | ‘ Because I shouted at them . |
22 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
23 | ‘ I 'm real sorry I shouted at you . |
24 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
25 | And I 'm sorry I shouted at you . ’ |
26 | Why do I baulk at it ? |
27 | I charged at them , yelping encouragement to the wheelbarrow , and patting it when it had done well . |
28 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
29 | Then I leap at him , flailing the club . |
30 | I , I looking at them . |