Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 2 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 3 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 5 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 6 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 7 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 8 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 9 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 10 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 11 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 12 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 13 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 14 | ‘ These days , ’ he said , looking at her in a way which took away what little breath she had left , ‘ I have this picture etched in my brain . |
| 15 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 16 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 17 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 18 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 19 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 20 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 21 | You look at me in a way that is familiar . |
| 22 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 23 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 24 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 25 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 26 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 27 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 29 | Erm well yours is different so we 'll look at yours in a minute . |
| 30 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |