Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask .
2 ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality .
3 The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze .
4 ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time .
5 Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know .
6 His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again .
7 Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment .
8 The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted .
9 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
10 On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him .
11 Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year .
12 From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror .
13 She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing .
14 Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line .
15 That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound .
16 Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man .
17 Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them .
18 The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens .
19 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 .
20 Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her .
21 Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street …
22 He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression .
23 Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression .
24 But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face .
25 They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way .
26 Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants .
27 I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous .
28 He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed .
29 ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety .
30 She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now .
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