Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 32 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 36 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 39 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 40 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |