Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 2 | Less cryptic was Barbara Bush , who once fumed at me after I made a similar enquiry : ‘ It 's none of your business and absolutely not … |
| 3 | As he thought about it , creating the scene as it must have been , his father shouted at her that she was useless and silly . |
| 4 | Ha , there was this girl in the club last night and somebody shouted at her and she went what ? |
| 5 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 6 | I shouted at him and he went mad . |
| 7 | It was worth every penny of the admission fee just to hear all the colourful comments and words of advice that both sets of supporters shouted at him as he left the pitch at the end . |
| 8 | On one of the islands he saw a shaggy water rat ; he shouted at it and it slid into the water and swam away with only the top of its head showing . |
| 9 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 10 | I went and meowed at him until he woke up . |
| 11 | He gestured at me and we left the hall . |
| 12 | They showed tremendous courage in the way they came at us and it was a glorious day for Cumbria . ’ |
| 13 | Theda threw at him before she could stop herself , as an echo of the pain he had inflicted rose again inside her . |
| 14 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 15 | Ronni frowned at him as he continued , ‘ I think they 'll make a go of it . |
| 16 | The beast 's eyes shone at him and he felt the teeth touch his bare skin ; then Isay appeared out of nowhere and brained it . |
| 17 | Something snapped inside her and she flew at him , hoarse cries coming from the back of her throat as she slapped and scratched at him until he caught her wrists and dragged her hard against his powerful body . |
| 18 | He grinned at me as he approached . |
| 19 | Eric grinned at me and I smiled back because I knew that , at well over sixty , he still played a very competitive game of golf off a handicap of ten . |
| 20 | He grinned at her as he switched the engine on . |
| 21 | Doyle grinned at her and she had to turn away because her eyes filled with tears . |
| 22 | The man on the floor who had jacked up grinned at her and she found herself grinning back . |
| 23 | She now grinned at him as she pushed him , only to cry at him under her breath as he lifted the teapot , ‘ Leave it ! |
| 24 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 25 | He glanced at her as she set the tray down on the table between them , then frowned , seeing how Karr was staring at her . |
| 26 | He glanced at her and she was surprised to see warmth in his eyes before he concentrated on the road ahead . |
| 27 | People glanced at them as they went by ; the ugly little scene they 'd played out had not gone unnoticed . |
| 28 | I d I could only glanced at it as I drove past cos the traffic was moving fairly quickly for the lights there you know . |
| 29 | He tugged and pulled at it until it eventually moved over his nose and ears , causing his hair to spring up in all directions like soft wire . |
| 30 | She waved at him but he did n't wave back . |