Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
| 3 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 4 | And then , ‘ Oh , eat your lunch and stop looking at me with those great spaniel eyes . |
| 5 | Stop looking at me like that . |
| 6 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 7 | ‘ And stop smiling at me like that ! ’ she ordered crossly . |
| 8 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 9 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 10 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 12 | Never again did he remember going at anything with such concentration . |
| 13 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 14 | You 've got to look at it at five years plus . |
| 15 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 16 | In fact he had not bothered to look at me at all . |
| 17 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 18 | It was a poor excuse … but I would have jumped at anything by that time . |
| 19 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 20 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 21 | You did n't have to glare at me like that . ’ |
| 22 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 23 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 24 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 25 | Good headlines did scream at you in those days . |
| 26 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 27 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 28 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 29 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |