Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 3 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 6 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 7 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 8 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 9 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 10 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
| 11 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 12 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 13 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 14 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 15 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 16 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 17 | What we feel is that by going at it like a bull in a china shop , we all sorts of accusations of widespread privatisation has actually backfired . |
| 18 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 19 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 20 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 22 | Fabbiano was standing in front of her , staring at her like a disapproving schoolmaster . |
| 23 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 24 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 25 | But she snapped , ‘ I 'm not tired , I 'm not , ’ glaring at him like an enemy , and he felt a sour weariness at the prospect of the long , white night ahead of them . |
| 26 | He pronounced took like a curse , and mimed the bad men looking by jutting his head forward and glaring at her like a demented goldfish . |
| 27 | A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier . |
| 28 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 29 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 30 | The rest of the group stared at us like a hanging jury before sentence is passed . |