Example sentences of "at [pron] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wo n't growl at me but he 'll grow at Reggie . |
| 2 | I could hear Auntie Jean shouting at me but I could n't make out anything she was saying . |
| 3 | People laughed at me but I do n't care . |
| 4 | She was laughing at me but I did n't care . |
| 5 | I hope you 're never looking at me but I have to dinner . |
| 6 | ‘ Throw what you will at me but it wo n't make any difference . |
| 7 | The plants may suffer because of the lack of light and fish picking at them but they will soon recover once things are back to normal when you return . |
| 8 | The guns were blazing away at them but they just kept coming . |
| 9 | At first the dog may only sniff at them but you should soon be able to encourage it to play with them . |
| 10 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |
| 11 | I 'll ask him all about them and look at them but I keep putting off buying them . |
| 12 | I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it . |
| 13 | It was a good likeness of their mother and she was smiling at them but she did n't belong in the Evans 's house . |
| 14 | So , like , we 've got this thing about her , anyway , she was com and she was talking to Fiona today and she was stood next to me , and like in a way , I was laughing at her but I felt so sorry for her cos she really , really stunk ! |
| 15 | I was at her but I was n't Yes . |
| 16 | Not that Dorothea minded their laughing at her but she felt protective towards her idea . |
| 17 | She realized that the child was smiling straight at her but she was too tired to engage with her , too detached to make contact , too hidden to do anything but take a photograph and her fingers felt too weak even to do this . |
| 18 | He continued smiling at her but she sensed a slight withdrawal . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt like screaming at him but I was determined to keep my dignity , ’ she said . |
| 20 | He felt the Italian boy was going to have a go at him but I do n't know whether it was a punch or a head-butt . ’ |
| 21 | I screamed murder at him but I never questioned his right , though I had the rent in my hand . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know how long I remained staring at him but I was disturbed by the noise of voices in the waiting-room . |
| 23 | You should have seen the butter he put on his toast in the mornings , I kept on at him but you know what he was like , he would n't be told . |
| 24 | She waved at him but he did n't wave back . |
| 25 | Some thought , some fragment of memory was tugging at him but he could not quite catch it , as so often these days . |
| 26 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 27 | I smiled at him but he did n't smile back . |
| 28 | Maggie glared at him but he bent again and locked the Porsche , pocketing the key and shrugging into a thick leather jacket . |
| 29 | She shot a secret look at him but he was checking the machine , the slight conversation with Mitch dismissed from his mind — or maybe not . |
| 30 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |