Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 32 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 33 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 34 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 35 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 36 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 37 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 38 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 39 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 40 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 41 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 42 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 43 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 44 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 45 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
| 46 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 47 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
| 48 | Gazing at her in the hall was the stuffed body of Grandpa 's black clumber spaniel , Pickwick . |
| 49 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 50 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 51 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |