Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Idiot ! ’ she laughed , her heart thudding at his compliments . |
| 2 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 3 | Downstairs , Teppanyaki San is Japanese food as theatre , with knife-juggling , joke-telling chefs cooking at your table — express lunches from £5.50 |
| 4 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 5 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 6 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 7 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 8 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |
| 9 | Battler pawed at his chin . |
| 10 | Perdita gazed at him , her white left cheek slowly turning bright scarlet , her eyes widening in horror . |
| 11 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 12 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 13 | ‘ You have your instructions , girls , ’ Haverford winked at them . |
| 14 | Sophie gazed at him affectionately . |
| 15 | Sophie gazed at her godmother , saw the pretty flush on her cheeks , and said cautiously , ‘ I never thought you 'd marry again . |
| 16 | The fairies giggle at their antics as they do at those of Bottom and their Queen . |
| 17 | Anyway he says it will be decided upon cos it 's the half an hour to go at it , you watch in the end . |
| 18 | Peggy gazed at her in dismay . |
| 19 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 20 | He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement , but they made no response . |
| 21 | From the pouch hanging at his belt he brought out a leather flask . |
| 22 | Sabrina lunged at him . |
| 23 | The distinction between policy making and implementation seems to need to rest upon the identification of decision points at which a policy is deemed to be made and ready for implementations like a commodity that is manufactured and ready for selling . |
| 24 | Gran 's stick lunged at it and dug out an ugly lump . |
| 25 | Later , when it was time for the evening meal , she entered the dining-room to find Silas and Matt seated at their corner table . |
| 26 | Certainly there can be no doubt that Islam looks at its most impressive in a great urban cathedral mosque , especially on an occasion like Id . |
| 27 | My mum dabbed at her eyes . |
| 28 | Sheila gaped at him . |
| 29 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 30 | Frau Nordern snatched at it . |