Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the man " in BNC.

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1 However , we have looked at the men who operate outside the Premier 's direct influence , at the men whose phone calls no one ever puts on hold .
2 ‘ I 'd have thought you 'd jump at the chance to have a second shot at the man . ’
3 The incident began after two tax inspectors and a bailiff called at the man 's house .
4 He asked , ‘ What 's the problem ? ’ and in the same moment , struck at the man stiff-armed , a karate blow .
5 It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it .
6 Škvoreck ý's; The Bass Saxophone describes the particularly intense form this has taken under totalitarian regimes — both Fascist and Stalinist — when ‘ the ideological guns and sometimes even the police guns of all dictatorships are aimed at the men with the horns ’ .
7 He had hacked at the man 's naked backside until it fell away in bloody pieces ready to be thrown to the dogs .
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