Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 4 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 6 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 7 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 8 | A large bird , a crow as far as she could tell , flapped up from picking at something on the ground and wheeled away high above her . |
| 9 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 10 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 11 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 12 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 13 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 14 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 15 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 16 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 17 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 18 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 19 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 20 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 21 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 22 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 23 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 24 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 25 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 26 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 27 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 28 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 29 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 30 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |