Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Grauniad reckoned Vinny seemed totally confounded by the affection radiated at him by Elland Road and this had an effect on the game ! |
| 2 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 3 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 4 | The nurse loo–ed at him keenly , then indicated left . |
| 5 | Doyle did not let go of the girl 's plait , but he jerked at it , to make her sit down . |
| 6 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 7 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 8 | Charlie bristled at him , a smart little fighting cock . |
| 9 | It seemed as if she could n't do anything right and everyone grumbled at her . |
| 10 | She yowled at him in complaint . |
| 11 | It we he phoned at it was , it was five to six , Jim was going to take me to aerobics because of the weather |
| 12 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 13 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 14 | She peered at him curiously from beneath her fringe of blonde hair . |
| 15 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 16 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 17 | She leaned on the working surface and peered at him . |
| 18 | The unemployed Turkish waiter stood in the doorway and peered at him ; he was muscular and squat , and he was wearing only pyjama trousers that were creased and stained . |
| 19 | A familiar but still timid stray cat peered at him from beneath a blackcurrant bush and howled piteously . |
| 20 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 21 | Woodruffe peered at him thoughtfully . |
| 22 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 23 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 24 | He peered at them . |
| 25 | Opaque polyhedrons split as he peered at them , revealing tiny mazes , each of which looked as complex as the larger network that filled the chamber . |
| 26 | Mike Pumfrey punched the books aggressively , and then peered at them . |
| 27 | in the brown light , but he peered at them |
| 28 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 29 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 30 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |