Example sentences of "man [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms . |
| 2 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 3 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 4 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The man swore at her before turning away , the seagulls screeching above his battered hat . |
| 7 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 8 | The man looked at her with sudden amusement as a penny dropped . |
| 9 | The man looked at me in my petrified state . |
| 10 | The man looked at him as if he was mad . |
| 11 | The young man looked at him for a while . |
| 12 | The man looked at him with a kindly face . |
| 13 | The boxer romped down the drive after me as I was leaving and the old man looked at him with undisguised admiration . |
| 14 | The fat man looked at us without enthusiasm . |
| 15 | He held out his leather tobacco pouch : the young man looked at it as if it would bite him who touched . |
| 16 | The thin man niggled at him like a flea in the hide of a rhinoceros . |
| 17 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |