Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 2 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 3 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 4 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 5 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 8 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 9 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 10 | Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 13 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 14 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
| 15 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 16 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 17 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 20 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
| 21 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 22 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 23 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 24 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |