Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 2 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
| 3 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 4 | The person who had nearly strangled her had come at her from behind . |
| 5 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 6 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 7 | I 'd like to stay here looking at you for ever , but I must stop acting now . ’ |
| 8 | Yesterday , however , when asked by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , if such a junction were likely to be approved now , Mr Cooksey stated : ‘ Looking at it with today 's knowledge I would have been reluctant to accept it . |
| 9 | Er looking at it from today 's standards , there was little er little recreation . |
| 10 | The boy seemed in pain , his lips drawn back from his teeth in what was almost a snarl , his whole body hunched into itself , as if something ate at him from within . |
| 11 | If they both came at him at once , from opposite sides , how would he deal with them ? |
| 12 | Our clothes came at us from all over the room . |
| 13 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 14 | St John glanced quickly at her , but dared not look at her for long . |
| 15 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 16 | We can look at it from both agnostic and religious viewpoints . |
| 17 | Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind . |
| 18 | A small frown drew her brows together and she arched back to look at him with as much objectivity as she could summon up . |
| 19 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 20 | He raked a hand through his black hair , turning to look at her with very dark eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ You will not , ’ he barked at her with barely controlled fury . |
| 22 | Robyn coughed violently and wiped at her by now streaming eyes . |
| 23 | Moving his head a fraction , he opened his eyes the merest slit and scowled at her from under thick dark lashes . |
| 24 | A pier is a disappointed bridge ; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel . |
| 25 | Thus were the Cornish giants vanquished and the pile of stones erected ‘ … that men might wonder at it for evermore ’ . |
| 26 | " I do , " agreed Matthew , thinking that old Coleworthy was a very different kettle of fish from the man now staring at him with slightly belligerent blue eyes . |
| 27 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 28 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 29 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 30 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |