Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stabbed at it with his talons and beak . |
| 2 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 3 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 4 | He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force . |
| 5 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 6 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 7 | He gazed at her without speaking for what must have been at least a minute . |
| 8 | He gazed at her without speaking , then started the car . |
| 9 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 10 | He gazed at her in silence for several seconds , then replied with icy simplicity , ‘ No time . |
| 11 | He gazed at her in silence , then he said , ‘ Well , in a way , it is professional . |
| 12 | He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket . |
| 13 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |
| 14 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |
| 15 | He looks at her in fear : ‘ the cleft was like a dumb , stupid mouth . ’ |
| 16 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 17 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 18 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 19 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 20 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 21 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 22 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 24 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 25 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 26 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
| 27 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 28 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 29 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 30 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |