Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
2 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
3 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
4 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
5 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
6 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
7 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
8 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
9 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
10 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
11 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
12 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
13 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
14 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
15 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
16 | Round the corner another old woman in her seventies awaited the departure of the year , huddled in bed for warmth , clad in layer upon layer of old nylon nightdress , woolly cardigan , matted flannel dressing-gown , gazing at an unsatisfactory black and white television flickering at her from a chair by the bed . |
17 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
18 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
19 | To his surprise he saw Timothy nodding at him through the dimness , before he 'd finished speaking . |
20 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
21 | There was the thin voice beating at him across the desk . |
22 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
23 | His name was called , and he turned his head and saw Lavinia waving at him from the porch . |
24 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
25 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
26 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
27 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
28 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |