Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me .
2 He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask .
3 If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope .
6 He looks at me for a second .
7 The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze .
8 She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me .
9 ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time .
10 She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock .
11 She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin .
12 His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again .
13 Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys .
14 Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment .
15 She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition .
16 He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention .
17 The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted .
18 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
19 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 .
20 Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally .
21 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 .
22 The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask .
23 Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband .
24 Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car .
25 She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing .
26 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 .
27 No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’
28 He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh .
29 Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line .
30 That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound .
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