Example sentences of "looking at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 2 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 3 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 4 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 5 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 6 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 7 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 10 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 11 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 12 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 13 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 14 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 15 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 16 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 17 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 18 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 20 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 21 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 22 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 23 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 24 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 25 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 26 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 27 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 28 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 29 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 30 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |