Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] 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 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
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 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
7 | 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 |
8 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Why was Louise looking at her like that ? |
13 | Her voice trailed off when she saw Ricky looking at her in utter amazement . |