Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 2 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |
| 3 | Large dark eyes looked at her without any expression and all he said was : ‘ Sir ? ’ in a voice both deep and guarded . |
| 4 | Sylvie looked at him in some perplexity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ruth looked at her after all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me like that , Luke , ’ she said unevenly . |
| 10 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 11 | Wilson stared at me with those piercing eyes . |
| 12 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 13 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 14 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 15 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 16 | As Ranald looked at him with some concern , the old man waved him off . |
| 17 | Robbie looked at him with some anxiety . |
| 18 | Goreng looked at me in some surprise . |
| 19 | Sandra smiled at her with such malignant dislike that she shivered . |
| 20 | The two boys gazed at her with such blazing admiration that she came close to blushing . |
| 21 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 22 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 23 | Startled by his sharp tone , Fabia stared at him in some surprise . |
| 24 | With Luke looking at her like that , a combination of desire and disgust hardening his features and his mouth somehow more richly sensual than it had looked before , Maria had no difficulty believing him . |
| 25 | Why was Louise looking at her like that ? |
| 26 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |