Example sentences of "[verb] at me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 33 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 34 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 35 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 36 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 37 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 38 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 39 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 40 | You look at me in a way that is familiar . |
| 41 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 42 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 43 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 44 | ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’ |
| 45 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 46 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 47 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 48 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 49 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 50 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 51 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 52 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 53 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 54 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
| 55 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 56 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 57 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 58 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 59 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 60 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |