Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
3 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
4 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
5 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
6 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
7 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
8 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
9 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
10 | It 's just looking at it in a slightly different way and trying , I 've done some things there to show you a , a sort of a system to use , use your own if you like but I want to see what comes in , what goes out , every time energy changes from one form into another form . |
11 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
12 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
13 | You see , because they just look at it in a completely different way . |
14 | ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’ |
15 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
16 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
17 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
18 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
19 | He stared at her in a very strange , intense way . |
20 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |
21 | She smiled at him in a distantly friendly way . |
22 | Then Lorne gazed at me for a very long time , in ripe candour . |
23 | Lorne gazed at me for a very long time again . |
24 | His grandmother was clutching his arm , smiling at him with an almost girlish pleasure . |
25 | She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn . |