Example sentences of "[adv] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group . |
| 2 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
| 3 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 4 | Once inside he removed his shoes and trousers very slowly then drew back her mosquito net and smiled lopsidedly at her before lowering himself unsteadily onto her cot . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 6 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 7 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 8 | It niggled away at her for about perhaps another two seconds , then , apropos of nothing , almost without her own volition , she found that she was suddenly bursting out , ‘ The only time your name was mentioned at lunchtime was when I stated that I was here , in Czechoslovakia , to interview you . ’ |
| 9 | The douce denizens of Edinburgh looked up in sudden amazement as a Heinkel thundered low across the rooftops beloved of Baillie Nicol Jarvie and disappeared beyond the hills , a spitfire hanging grimly on to its smoking trail and blazing away at it with all four guns . |
| 10 | In contrast , the D-32 's tighter , more introverted qualities mean that you can thrash away at it with complete abandon and still get a smooth , rich , controlled and , it has to be said , very Martin-esque result . |
| 11 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |
| 12 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 13 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 14 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 15 | ‘ The Italians and the Germans are still at it in Spain . |
| 16 | As we walked along the track from the car park on that sparkling May morning , swifts skimmed low over our heads after swarming gnats , dainty white lady 's smock swayed in the breeze , and a little owl stared solemnly and unblinkingly at us from the fork of an oak tree . |
| 17 | He looked sidelong at her with a quick smile , and she frowned and nodded his attention quickly towards the stranger . |
| 18 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 19 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 20 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 21 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 22 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 23 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 24 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 25 | Lamb arrived , and before he had scored Patel dropped a hard slash straight at him at comfortable height . |
| 26 | Maria looked straight at him with hard eyes . |
| 27 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't look straight at him like that , ’ Nick said . |
| 29 | After a moment , he lifted his dark head and looked straight at her with hard , narrowed eyes . |
| 30 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |