Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 2 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 3 | She opened her eyes and gazed at him in disbelief . |
| 4 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 5 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 6 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |
| 7 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 8 | He pursed his lips and looked at her with a frown . |
| 9 | She pursed her lips and stared at him with her grey eyes . |
| 10 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 11 | Either way , though , there was a belligerency about it , with dials that gazed at her like eyes ; mean , shifty eyes , warning her to beware . |
| 12 | As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them . |
| 13 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 14 | Maggie shot to her feet and stared at him in astonishment , and at that moment Felipe de Santis walked past the room , his dark eyes taking everything at one swift glance — Mitch obviously just leaving , Maggie 's suddenly flushed face and wide eyes and the slightly rumpled bed where she had rested to talk to Mitch . |
| 15 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 16 | Bryan even came to my home and scoffed at me for suggesting that he and the Duchess were lovers . |
| 17 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 18 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 19 | Roman sat on a corner of her desk and looked at her with such a grave expression that she cried out in alarm . |
| 20 | He turned his wrinkled face towards the young hedgehog and looked at her with his deep brown eyes . |
| 21 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 22 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 23 | Here we have a team unafraid to break out from any area of the field and run at you with ball in hand . |
| 24 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 25 | Nor did he take colleague John McEnroe to task for abusing the Swiss non-playing captain , hitting balls at their team and gesturing at them with his racket . |
| 26 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 27 | Perdita sat up , blew her nose and looked at him with red , swollen eyes . |
| 28 | She paused , turned to me , put her sunglasses down her nose and looked at me over them . |
| 29 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 30 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |