Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 2 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 3 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 4 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 5 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 6 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 7 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 8 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 9 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 10 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 11 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 12 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 13 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 14 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 15 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 16 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 17 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 18 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 19 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 20 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 21 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 23 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 24 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 25 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 26 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 27 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 28 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 29 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 30 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |