Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] from " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push .
2 We felt them looking at us from behind the lace and from the shadowy hallways , peering through their caterpillar curtains at these strangers with clean shoes and light , impractical clothes .
3 At the 17th , a switchback of a green , he said : ‘ Let me look at it from this side .
4 I was tel I was telling you looking at it from another point of view last night of the What happens when you put electricity through a wire ?
5 ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass .
6 ‘ The Beatles were a brilliant thing that happened , but if you look at it from another point of view , what a waste of time . ’
7 It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical .
8 If you look at it from round that way it 's two lots of six .
9 But if you look at it from this way four people standing there they 'll get three each .
10 It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth .
11 But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent .
12 So it looks as if you , people 's emotions have been tuned in such a way , that mothers look on these situations from their point of view and feel happy about it , and offspring like you look at it from their point of view and feel unhappy about it , and your emotions are the way the evolution has equipped you to deal with these problems .
13 She waved at him from the door and went down to the street .
14 Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round .
15 She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses .
16 She smiled at him from the opposite stool .
17 The walls of the paternoster were mirror-tiled , bronze-lit ; she flashed at him from wall to wall , hotly .
18 And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others .
19 There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior .
20 Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers .
21 And then they came at us from both sides . ’
22 Folly turned the card over and over in her hands , as if by her looking at it from another direction the words might mysteriously transpose themselves into the expected apology .
23 Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script .
24 It was still , but he sensed her staring at him from out of the darkness of her shelter , and a laboured and painful breathing came from her .
25 He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him .
26 He came at her from the front then ? ’
27 In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood .
28 He grinned at her from a toothless mouth .
29 He scowled at her from under his brows .
30 Timothy , although a regular caller , had n't mentioned the alternative to Yelton again , but the way he looked at her from time to time made words unnecessary .
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