Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcus Judge glared at him under beetling brows . |
| 2 | Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment . |
| 3 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at him in surprise and switched the vacuum-cleaner off . |
| 4 | It was as though Wycliffe was giving her only part of his attention ; he seemed to have become absorbed in his own thoughts and when Sara stopped speaking there was an interval long enough for Lucy Lane to look at him with concern . |
| 5 | Miss Menzies looked at him as if he was mad . |
| 6 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 7 | With his head to one side Len stared at him for a moment , then asked , ‘ No friends or acquaintances , like ? ’ |
| 8 | There were little tatters of paper at the bottom of the one by the fireplace , where the raffia and other handwork materials were kept , and Miss Fogerty looked at them with alarm and suspicion . |
| 9 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 10 | Aunt Emily smiled at her in a puzzled manner and picked up a letter which lay on the quilt . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 12 | Colonel Carteret glared at her with his fierce blue eye . |
| 13 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 14 | Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated . |
| 15 | Mr Edgar looked at her in angry surprise . |
| 16 | Mr Crumwallis gazed at him in amazement , as if the worm had turned , and left him flabbergasted at the depths of human ingratitude suddenly exposed . |
| 17 | Mr Crumwallis looked at him in dyspeptic reproof , unused as he was to having his magisterial ramblings interrupted . |
| 18 | For a moment Theda looked at her with hurt in her eyes , a little puzzled . |
| 19 | Mr Malik beamed at them in a fatherly manner . |
| 20 | Mr Braybrooke looked at her for a long moment . |
| 21 | When I explained about the sleeping man and his promise of a visa , Mr Saleb looked at me as if ! was talking gibberish . |
| 22 | Uncle Albert looked at her in surprise . |
| 23 | As she closed the door after her , Mr Kronweiser looked at it for a minute or two in puzzlement . |
| 24 | Uncle Walter looked at him with gratitude . |
| 25 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 26 | Mrs Rumney looked at me in silence for a few moments and I saw in her face the dawning of relief and hope . |
| 27 | And yet Mrs Browning looked at her with hatred , her pale face growing steadily darker , and said , ‘ Leave me . ’ |
| 28 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 29 | As she took her own cup and settled herself again in her chair , Mrs McDougall looked at me over her spectacles and said comfortably : ‘ The girls will have told you about Ewen Mackay . ’ |
| 30 | The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw . |