Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 2 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 3 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 4 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 5 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 6 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 7 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 8 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 9 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 10 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 11 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 12 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 13 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 15 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |