Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 3 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 4 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 5 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
| 6 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 7 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 8 | They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles . |
| 9 | Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry . |
| 10 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 11 | The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence . |
| 12 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 13 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 14 | Burger looked at him with an odd expression . |
| 15 | It nagged at her like an aching tooth . |
| 16 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
| 17 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 18 | Nick Stanton gazed at her with an uncustomary scowl . |
| 19 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 20 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |