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Example sentences of "[noun] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Torn Sunday colour supplements made eyes at her from the railings .
2	She narrowed her eyes at him over the coffee-table .
3	Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ?
4	Hector trusted him to guard his back , and concentrated on the men poking spears at him from the front and sides .
5	She flicked a pink anemone at him through the hatch and it hit his cheek so that he turned round and winked at her .
6	Lineker says : ‘ It really started , if Graham 's honest , when he had a dig at me about the Republic of Ireland game at Wembley , when I did a piece with one of the newspapers saying I was a bit tired .
7	‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press .
8	Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time .
9	The other nods at me from the comfort of his cracked-leather chair .
10	Balvinder shook his head at me across the ring : ‘ This one very weakling bird , ’ he shouted .
11	It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows .
12	I do n't want her shouting names at me over the fence . ’
13	The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English .
14	The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula .
15	He stole covert glances at her across the table .
16	I aimed my camera at them over the fence ,
17	‘ You could n't have mentioned this when I took a shot at him in the alleyway . ’
18	Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’
19	‘ I 'll get our family doctor to take a look at her in the morning .
20	But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up .
21	During local soaring , select good-looking fields , and then go and have a look at them after the flight to see what they are really like .
22	‘ Oh , it 's all right , I — ’ She stopped and did her best to get a really good look at him through the fog .
23	mm , erm , and he wh you know he is thinking well is this , is that the reason erm , so er , I do n't know , you know , er , I , I think perhaps it 's worth looking at , perhaps we can all thing about it and have a look at it at the A G M.
24	Yes , and its not through yet , presumably they 'll have another look at it at the end of the month .
25	So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion .
26	His last words , flung over his shoulder at her through the cold , stinging spray , were :
27	She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back .
28	Jamie snarls at us from the pillow .
29	And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’
30	I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics .