Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 2 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 3 | ‘ That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now , ’ he said , ‘ and for your wickedness in hiding , and for looking at me like that , you rat ! ’ |
| 4 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
| 5 | I 'll never forget that I will never forget that , I had , I 'll told my mum like that we I told my mum we 'd be sleeping over and she said that was alright and she sort of looked at me as if to say mm , yes will Helena 's brother be there ? |
| 6 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 7 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 8 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 9 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 10 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 11 | So I 'm inclined to sort of look at it under those , er , within those distances and is there any descent with er Mr 's analysis of his sectors , that they would fit within that er , those general distances ? |
| 12 | McGoldrick said : ‘ The chairman can be blunt and the target was his way of getting at me about my goalscoring record . |
| 13 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 14 | would the , did the staff seem interested , a got a nil positive response from them , assistant manager or the other guy who sort of looked at me as if I |
| 15 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
| 16 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
| 17 | The traffic he had cut into blared at him for his boorish behaviour . |
| 18 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 19 | That up to the time in Edinburgh , the Monotype machines have been largely , if not chiefly , operated by women , and that women have proved themselves entirely competent to work these machines , so that it seems a great hardship that women should be debarred from working at them in future . |
| 20 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 21 | McIllvanney did not respond , except to stare at me with his unblinking and reptilian eyes , and thus he forced me to add an unnecessary explanation . |
| 22 | The temptation is to jump to conclusions without arriving at them via a review . |
| 23 | But I think , I mean they seem , these people had a , a jurisdiction of between ten to fifty si fifty or sixty thousand people , now so th th he 's , Mao 's saying that not all of them are , are evil , not all of them are , it 's only some who are but I think every sixty thousand more than likely are gon na look at theirs as being the evil one , that they are going to want to , to overthrow . |
| 24 | So we gon na look at it in simple form first , things like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and carbonates and then build up erm I think , no . |
| 25 | I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device |
| 26 | Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Many older horses will just stand and try and drive the bot away by striking at it with their feet . |