Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 4 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 5 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 6 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 7 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 8 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 9 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 10 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 13 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 14 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 15 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 16 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 17 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 20 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 21 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 22 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 23 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 24 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 25 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 26 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 27 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 28 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 29 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 30 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |