Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 32 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 33 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 34 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 35 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 36 | Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas |
| 37 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 38 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 39 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 40 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 41 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 42 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 43 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 46 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 47 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 48 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 51 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 55 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 56 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 57 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 58 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 59 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 60 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |