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 . |