Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin , capable woman who was taking the riding-class looked at him in amazement as he leaned panting on the gate to the ring , the dog whining beside him . |
| 2 | I think he must have just looked at us as guys who could take care of themselves , no problem . ’ |
| 3 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 4 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 5 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 6 | For the first time , tonight , she had looked at her home , really looked at it after Glyn 's observations . |
| 7 | Gourmets lured them to piles of turnips , then shot at them with duck-guns . |
| 8 | His eyes sparked at her like firecrackers . |
| 9 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
| 10 | He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule . |
| 11 | Female slaves mopped at them with cloths of unbleached fabric , and Alexei took one out of a pair of slim hands and towelled himself dry . |
| 12 | Here we have a team unafraid to break out from any area of the field and run at you with ball in hand . |
| 13 | The words sprayed at her like bullets . |
| 14 | Smith looked strained and defensive , as he began to field the balls thrown at him by correspondents from American , Greek , Portuguese , French and British news agencies . |
| 15 | But more than that , as I have said already , a demoralized teaching force that feels disenfranchised from the process of educational change will be resistant to the changes that are thrown at them by outsiders . |
| 16 | personally have had a horse actually had things thrown at it by saboteurs ! |
| 17 | The biggest challenges that most of us have to deal with are invariably those that are thrown at us by fate . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd seen the stuff that was pitched at them through advertising . |
| 19 | His fear screamed at him to bolt , but he forced his mind into action , to plan the run sensibly . |
| 20 | I discovered spit on my lapel and had abuse hurled at me by followers and supporters of the hunt and was cursed by the hunters . |
| 21 | Numerous criticisms have been directed at it from insides and outside feminism . |
| 22 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 23 | The first former 's stared at her in surprise , they knew she never mended any thing if she could help it . |
| 24 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 25 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 26 | Then the Prophet 's lips drew back from his teeth in a soundless snarl of triumph , and the next thing Curtis knew , he was staring down the muzzle of the gun the other had levelled at him from point blank range . |
| 27 | ‘ That last morning Eric Atkinson had bowled at me during practice . |
| 28 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |