Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 2 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 3 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 4 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 5 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 6 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 7 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 8 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 9 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 10 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 11 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 12 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 13 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 14 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 15 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 16 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 17 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 18 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 19 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 20 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 21 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 22 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 23 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 24 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 25 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 26 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 27 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 28 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 29 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 30 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |