Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 2 | There was a plane overhead and the A.-A. guns were firing at it . |
| 3 | Somewhere down below his neat , desperate parents were bellowing at her to stop but she was n't going to . |
| 4 | Would n't she always feel a fool , knowing they were laughing at her and her Irish ways . |
| 5 | She saw that Jennifer and Vanessa were laughing at her and something inside her stirred . |
| 6 | The eyes on her back were laughing at her , judging her . |
| 7 | This often happened when he thought that one or all of us were laughing at him , especially if he interpreted our teasing as mocking his intelligence . |
| 8 | Hugh was aware that the sailors lining the rail of the ship were laughing at him . |
| 9 | ‘ Part of him would be very pleased that you were laughing at him . |
| 10 | ‘ I-I-I thought you were laughing at me , ’ she said . |
| 11 | She were laughing at me Joyce when it happened to me , I ca n't believe how stupid you are she said |
| 12 | When you were laughing at me . |
| 13 | They were laughing at it . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't until we noticed the absence of female customers , the dim red lights , and the photos of naked women on the walls that we realised why the ‘ barmaids ’ were laughing at us . ’ |
| 15 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 16 | All at once the long green eyes were glittering at her . |
| 17 | The ones who were looking at them were looking silently and glancing at their catalogues , and the rest were talking about other matters — mostly about where they had last met . |
| 18 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 19 | Three young men had got out and were looking at them . |
| 20 | ‘ So , ’ reasoned the inspector , ‘ all the guests were looking at her ? ’ |
| 21 | Maggie blushed , aware that quite a few men were looking at her now . |
| 22 | ‘ I do remember in Madrid , there was a crowd of teens , and I could see they knew her and were looking at her . |
| 23 | The three old men seated on chairs in the dark shop were looking at her as though she were an amusing variation on their usual routine of watching the shopping . |
| 24 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 25 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 26 | Still , they were looking at her rather than me . |
| 27 | She knew that Christie Goldsborough was looking at her strangely and that other people , somewhere in the room — pushing into the doorway to see what was going on — were looking at her too . |
| 28 | But er the blokes were looking at her |
| 29 | I would be painfully aware of myself , convinced they were looking at me , and trying to act normally , without any idea what ‘ normal ’ is . |
| 30 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |