Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
2 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
3 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
4 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
5 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
6 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
7 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
8 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
9 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
10 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
11 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
12 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
13 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
14 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
15 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
16 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
17 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
18 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
19 | He looks at me for a second . |
20 | He looks at me for the first time . |
21 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
22 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
23 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
24 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
25 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
26 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
27 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
28 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
29 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
30 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |