Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife . |
| 2 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 3 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 4 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 5 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 6 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 7 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 8 | Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget ! |
| 9 | He had sprung out at her from nowhere , not even giving her the time to brace herself against him . |
| 10 | Talk of this sort was mostly to raise morale , as McFarlane was at pains to say when his ‘ Secretary of State ’ remark was thrown back at him at the hearings . |
| 11 | But it was an improvement on William 's taste in art and they served a good pint of bitter , and Preston might almost have settled back to enjoy it if he 'd been able to forget their reason for being there and if Emily had n't kept on at him about William and the Black Death . |
| 12 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |