Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 2 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 3 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
| 4 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 5 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 6 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 11 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 15 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 16 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 17 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 18 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 19 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 20 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 21 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 23 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |
| 24 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 25 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 26 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 27 | Silas barked at her in a fury . |
| 28 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 29 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 30 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |