Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | His fear screamed at him to bolt , but he forced his mind into action , to plan the run sensibly . |
2 | A large blonde girl waved at me from across the room , spilling a large part of her drink down the back of another woman 's dress at the same time . |
3 | I discovered spit on my lapel and had abuse hurled at me by followers and supporters of the hunt and was cursed by the hunters . |
4 | What excuse have SSDs for having achieved so little , despite the vast amount of cash hurled at them by successive governments since the early 1970s ? |
5 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
6 | had a lot of stuff thrown at you in one go . |
7 | The Fed is still sore from the criticism thrown at it for pushing America into recession ; if it tightens policy before official figures show inflation to be rising , it will come under fierce political attack . |
8 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
9 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
10 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
11 | THE SCOTTISH bar was cleared yesterday of racial discrimination , a claim levelled at it by a Nigerian student . |
12 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
13 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
14 | On Aug. 16 Solzhenitsyn issued a statement repudiating the restoration of his citizenship because the decree failed to address the accusation of treason levelled at him at the time of his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 . |
15 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |
16 | She cracked eggs into a frying pan and stood over them while they cooked , wincing as hot fat spat at her from the pan . |
17 | A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier . |
18 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |