Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to lunge at them with my talons but crows are clever , crows can judge distance to the fraction of a talon . |
| 2 | I said and you all used to look at him as if he was bloody king |
| 3 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 4 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 5 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 6 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 7 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 8 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 9 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 10 | The black glittering eyes seemed to tear at her like scissors . |
| 11 | ‘ I know , ’ he said , and seemed to look at her as if to gauge how love looked in a person 's eyes . |
| 12 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |
| 13 | The male Ixmaritians paid him little heed and seemed to look at him as if he was a freak , but two girls , who occupied the rooms next to his own , became his especial friends . |
| 14 | But even the children and chickens there seemed to look at him with suspicion . |
| 15 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 16 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 17 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 18 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 19 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 20 | She also got quite a shock when she saw his face as he turned to look at her on film . |
| 21 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 22 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 23 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 24 | He turned to glance at her as if the sound of her laugh was quite pleasant to his ears . |
| 25 | It set him aside , he began to look at them with Barnett 's and Lewis 's eyes , thinking of them as unsuccessful because they did n't try . |
| 26 | She began to thrust at him with her body ; their mingled breaths merged , their open mouths met , tongues touching . |
| 27 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 28 | Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub . |
| 29 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 30 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |