Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a tendency , even a compulsion to repeat short phrases which seemed particularly apt : to hammer at them as if something was being shaped on an anvil , or as if each phrase was a key which unlocked whole galleries of memory . |
| 2 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 3 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 4 | Just to just to guess at it without sort of working it out . |
| 5 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 6 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 7 | Other excitements took their place but I was more inclined to stare at them in amazement than paint them . |
| 8 | He turned his head to stare at me as if he could n't at once comprehend my interest , but then , understanding , said of course I could go if I wanted to . |
| 9 | McIllvanney did not respond , except to stare at me with his unblinking and reptilian eyes , and thus he forced me to add an unnecessary explanation . |
| 10 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 11 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 12 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 13 | She continued to stare at him in silence , waiting for further explanation . |
| 14 | Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind . |
| 15 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 16 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 17 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 18 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 19 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 20 | She raised her head to look at him between her bare knees . |
| 21 | Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him . |
| 22 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 23 | But even the children and chickens there seemed to look at him with suspicion . |
| 24 | It was as though Wycliffe was giving her only part of his attention ; he seemed to have become absorbed in his own thoughts and when Sara stopped speaking there was an interval long enough for Lucy Lane to look at him with concern . |
| 25 | A small frown drew her brows together and she arched back to look at him with as much objectivity as she could summon up . |
| 26 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 27 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 28 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 29 | He imagined the lodgers , who had mostly changed , to look at him as if he were a parasite , who should be working to support her . |
| 30 | He imagined the lodgers , who had mostly changed , to look at him as if he were a parasite , who should be working to support her . |