Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 2 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 3 | She had solved his problem with Ana , belonged to him , and he had looked at her deeply with a great deal of affection . |
| 4 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 5 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 6 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 7 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 8 | Ho was looking at him now with a sneer on his face . |
| 9 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 10 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 11 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 12 | But why was he looking at her now with no sign of warmth in his glance ? |
| 13 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 14 | The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he |
| 15 | Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business , |
| 16 | That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways . |
| 17 | The throaty rumble of twin diesel motors muttered at them out of the darkness . |
| 18 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 19 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 20 | But look at them once in a while . |
| 21 | Look at it in through the in the fume cupboard I can see one from here . |
| 22 | I mean if you look at it now without the dining table |
| 23 | Theda continued to look at him uncertainly for a moment . |
| 24 | Here it is necessary to look at it briefly as a corollary of ahi sā . |
| 25 | somebody comes to look at it just for a view I mean , I say , I , I 'm quite happy coming like I said th if you motion behind there , make the bar presentable we 'll fill it out with stock then that 'll look better |
| 26 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
| 27 | The tree 's branches clutched at him out of the darkness and he floundered up in an attempt to get clear of them . |
| 28 | She stares at me hard with a you-ain't-getting-change expression . |
| 29 | Whenever Doris was n't looking , Charlie would play peek-a-boo with her and she would stare at him stonily for a minute and then turn her head pointedly away . |
| 30 | He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down . |