Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 5 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 6 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |