Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [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 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 11 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 12 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 13 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 16 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 17 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 18 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 19 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 22 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 23 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 26 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 30 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |