Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 2 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 6 | The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he |
| 7 | Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I mean if you look at it now without the dining table |
| 10 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
| 11 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 12 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 13 | He looked at her straight in the eyes . |
| 14 | The lift arrived as she said the name , and the two people inside looked at her curiously through the metal lattice . |
| 15 | He lifted his close-shaven muzzle and looked at her hard over the monitor of his reader . |
| 16 | There were also a great many red squirrels in the forest , delicate little creatures with tufted ears who looked at them fearlessly from the high branches . |
| 17 | Connors looked at him intently through the smoke haze as he reached out and switched on a tape recorder . |
| 18 | I 'll remember how he looked at me just before the Robemaker took him and how he called me ‘ Lady ’ . |
| 19 | She looked at me crossly over the breakfast table . |
| 20 | He looked at me searchingly across the horizontal tree , and I said instantly , " I love you . " |
| 21 | From behind her check-out till , Mrs Patel looked at us curiously over the top of her blue-framed spectacles . |
| 22 | If Edward could not get at them here without the hazards of the river-crossing , neither could they get at him . |
| 23 | The sun-bathed wall which forms the south face of Lomnicky Stit winked at me early in the trip . |
| 24 | Susan 's husband had stared at her bleakly from the bed , already certain of her betrayal . |