Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hurled the words at him with such violence that she paused in order to catch her breath . |
| 2 | He had shaken his bunch of keys at me with great seriousness . |
| 3 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 4 | Politicians are slinging arrows at him from all sides . |
| 5 | For many years there were rumours of Egyptian vultures breaking open ostrich eggs by throwing stones at them at close range . |
| 6 | He had then thrown stones at them for fifteen minutes before ordering a kit inspection for the rest of us . |