Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 32 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 33 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 34 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 35 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 36 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 37 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 38 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 39 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 40 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 41 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 42 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 43 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 44 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 45 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 46 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 47 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 48 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 49 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 50 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |