Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 2 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 3 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 4 | Headlong she ran , heedless of the branches that caught at her , tearing at her dark stuff gown , ripping away the white cap that covered her hair . |
| 5 | At himself for the doubts that ate at him , and at his ancestor for giving him nothing more than a string of empty platitudes . |
| 6 | Either way , though , there was a belligerency about it , with dials that gazed at her like eyes ; mean , shifty eyes , warning her to beware . |
| 7 | His hands met a furry body and claws that flailed at him . |
| 8 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 9 | Reduced to speechlessness by the conflicting emotions that tore at her , she found herself meekly following where her whispering ‘ captor ’ led . |
| 10 | There were many things that pulled at me . |
| 11 | Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity . |