Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [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 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 14 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 15 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 16 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 17 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 22 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 23 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 24 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 27 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 28 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |