Example sentences of "[vb past] at i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 2 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 3 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 4 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 5 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 6 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 7 | He squinted at me through his spectacles . |
| 8 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 10 | 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 12 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 13 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 14 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 15 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 16 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 17 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 18 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 19 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 20 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 21 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 22 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
| 23 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 24 | I fell in love with a boy with a crew cut who came to mend our roof with the window cleaner who grinned at me in my rollers and the boy in Vallance 's record shop with a sport face . |
| 25 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 26 | Old Red looked up from the floor , and glanced at me before answering . |
| 27 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 28 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 29 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 30 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |