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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Morley looked at her with genuine concern . |
8 | ’ Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction |
9 | Hari looked at him with raised eyebrows . |
10 | Zelah looked at him in amused astonishment . |
11 | Mr Edgar looked at her in angry surprise . |
12 | Edward looked at her with grey eyes like Tilda 's , but without much expectation from life . |
13 | ’ Catesby stared at us from red-rimmed eyes . |
14 | Mr Crumwallis looked at him in dyspeptic reproof , unused as he was to having his magisterial ramblings interrupted . |
15 | Ryker looked at her with sheer hatred . |
16 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
17 | For a moment Theda looked at her with hurt in her eyes , a little puzzled . |
18 | 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 . ’ |
19 | What excuse have SSDs for having achieved so little , despite the vast amount of cash hurled at them by successive governments since the early 1970s ? |
20 | The coroner glared at him through narrowed eyes . |
21 | Penry glared at her in sudden fury . |
22 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
23 | You 're confined to this place , ’ he waves his gangly arm around his tiny office in the Lords one Wednesday afternoon , ‘ stuff flies at you from left , right and centre , ’ he snorts , as his forehead furrows . |
24 | Suddenly , Damian turned his dark head to look at her with narrowed eyes . |
25 | The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers . |
26 | Paige stared at him in growing wrath , then turned to Jonas . |
27 | Eadred stared at him in mock innocence . |
28 | Andrus looked at him with undisguised fury . |
29 | Jessamy stared at him in numb shock . |
30 | Jessamy stared at him in utter disbelief . |