Example sentences of "at [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 2 | Bob looked at me as if only a muppet would ask a question like that . |
| 3 | He looked at me as if he could not believe his eyes , and a faint , doubtful smile began to move his lips . |
| 4 | He turned his head to stare at me as if he could n't at once comprehend my interest , but then , understanding , said of course I could go if I wanted to . |
| 5 | She smiles at me as if she really likes me . |
| 6 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 7 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 8 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 9 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 10 | I just stood there solid as a rock and this feller looked at me as if to say , ‘ For two pins … ’ |
| 11 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 12 | A small , dark , intense man with a beard and drooping moustache , who is probably looking at me as if he would like to put daggers in my back ? ’ |
| 13 | My feet got so hot and sweaty I took my trainers and socks off and walked along in my bare feet till I saw a traffic warden looking at me as if she 'd get me arrested . |
| 14 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 15 | I can see some of you looking at me as if I 'm crazy , although many of you have seen the beast . |
| 16 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 17 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 18 | He looked at me as if I were sure of what this was . |
| 19 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |
| 20 | And the Gunners ' record signing , pilloried for his moment of madness in the battle of White Hart Lane a week ago , said : ‘ People in the street are going to look at me as if I 'm some kind of nutcase trying to put people out of the game . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm the company secretary , so it was essential that I was there and , as our timetables kept being shifted , I could see Martin looking at me as if to say is she going to make it ? |
| 22 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 23 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 24 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 25 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
| 26 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 27 | But he 's started looking at me as if to say , ‘ Perhaps she does understand after all . ’ ' |
| 28 | The other pair looked at me as if to apologise and we began to talk . |
| 29 | would the , did the staff seem interested , a got a nil positive response from them , assistant manager or the other guy who sort of looked at me as if I |
| 30 | Gillian looked at me as if that was rather a stupid question . |