Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 3 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 4 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 5 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 6 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 7 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 8 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 9 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 10 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 11 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 12 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 13 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 14 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 15 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 16 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 17 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 18 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 19 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 20 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 21 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 22 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 23 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 24 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 25 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 26 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 27 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 28 | A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier . |
| 29 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 30 | She saw him as he listened attentively to Sir Anthony ; she caught his eye , waved at him across the sea of heads , abandoned him to the tide : he was an old friend of Otto Werner 's , whom he could seek out if in need of relief . |