Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
2 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |
3 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
4 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
5 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |