Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement , but they made no response . |
| 2 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 3 | Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ? |
| 4 | Sylvie gazed at him in momentary confusion . |
| 5 | She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow . |
| 6 | Part of his speed-of-reflex training as a kung-fu master had been to evade , or divert with forearm blocks , spears flung at him by other trainees in the martial arts school . |
| 7 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 8 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |
| 9 | Visiting players , Raimundo , the grooms and Alejandro looked at her with ill-concealed lust , but her dead-pan hauteur and Señor Gracias ' large , looming presence kept them at bay . |
| 10 | Morley looked at her with genuine concern . |
| 11 | ’ Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction |
| 12 | Hari looked at him with raised eyebrows . |
| 13 | Large dark eyes looked at her without any expression and all he said was : ‘ Sir ? ’ in a voice both deep and guarded . |
| 14 | Zelah looked at him in amused astonishment . |
| 15 | Mr Edgar looked at her in angry surprise . |
| 16 | Sylvie looked at him in some perplexity . |
| 17 | Edward looked at her with grey eyes like Tilda 's , but without much expectation from life . |
| 18 | She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's . |
| 19 | Ruth looked at her after all . |
| 20 | ’ Catesby stared at us from red-rimmed eyes . |
| 21 | Mr Crumwallis looked at him in dyspeptic reproof , unused as he was to having his magisterial ramblings interrupted . |
| 22 | Ryker looked at her with sheer hatred . |
| 23 | Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail . |
| 24 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me like that , Luke , ’ she said unevenly . |
| 26 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
| 27 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 28 | Wilson stared at me with those piercing eyes . |
| 29 | For a moment Theda looked at her with hurt in her eyes , a little puzzled . |
| 30 | Creggan called out once more after her , powerfully , and Kraal stared at him in silent surprise and just a little awe , while unnoticed by any of them the meek Slorne relaxed a little and seemed to nod her head , as if to whisper to a waiting sky , ‘ Yes … yes … yes . ’ |