Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 32 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 33 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 34 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 35 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 36 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 37 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 38 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 39 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 40 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 41 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 42 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 43 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 44 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 45 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 46 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 47 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 48 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 49 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 50 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 51 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 52 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 53 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 54 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 55 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 56 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 57 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 58 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 59 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 60 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |