Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 2 | Gail ripped up a brochure and chucked it at Tjolle . |
| 3 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 4 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 5 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 6 | ‘ I further said to [ the defendant ] ‘ You set men to watch her , you trail her and found her at Gloria Chin 's house and there you threatened to kill her with your gun , but she escaped you . |
| 7 | Henry Tudor found that there was still considerable opposition to him becoming King , particularly from ‘ Yorkshire ’ pretenders , who included Margaret of Burgundy , for whom an Oxford tradesman called Simnel , crossed into England from Ireland , in the summer of 1487 , with a force of two thousand German mercenaries , but Henry — who had become King Henry VII , in September 1485 — raised a larger army and defeated them at Newark . |
| 8 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 9 | In the 1930s Lord Aberconway bought the Mill 's Music House , dismantled and reconstructed it at Bodnant in North Wales . |
| 10 | There were quite a few noted cheesemakers in Cotherstone at the time , including the Misses Hutchinson and the Hodgson family , and Aunt Hannah also used to make cheeses with the help of my Aunt Mary , who lived in Lartington , and showed them at Eggleston Show . |
| 11 | He grabbed a sandwich off his plate and threw it at Asik . |
| 12 | Then he picked up a chair and threw it at Detchard 's legs . |
| 13 | Folly grabbed a pillow from behind her and threw it at Luke , then saw his face change with sudden desire as the sheet slipped down to expose her breasts . |
| 14 | The other man picked up the dressing gown lying on the end of the bed and threw it at Connelly . |
| 15 | He looked desperately around for a weapon , picked up a bowl of hot soup and threw it at Edgar , who started screaming . |
| 16 | He seized a brick desperately and threw it at Yussuf . |
| 17 | He took out the fragment of the news-sheet and waved it at Thai . |
| 18 | The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place . |
| 19 | In fury he scooped up the gelatinous mess and hurled it at Fairbrother , who kicked him in the balls . |
| 20 | Deems raised the MPRP weapon and pointed it at Cley 's face . |
| 21 | Laura pulled the gun from between her breasts and pointed it at Jonathan . |