Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I grin at myself in the mirror . |
2 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
3 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
4 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
5 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
6 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
7 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
8 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
9 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
10 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
11 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
12 | Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’ |
13 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
14 | I look at him with about the dirtiest look I can muster . |
15 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
16 | I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal . |
17 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
18 | A few days later , I look at myself in the mirror . |
19 | ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’ |
20 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
21 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
22 | It 's good , but I look at it like … did you see the movie ‘ Road Warrior ’ ? ' |
23 | I bark at anything in sight . |
24 | I stare at it in hatred . |
25 | I breakfasted at anything between eight-thirty and nine . |
26 | I smile at myself in the mirror . |
27 | I talked at him as if he could easily be normal . |
28 | I stared at him in horror . |
29 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
30 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |