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Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in the [noun] " 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	‘ 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 .
4	Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times .
5	Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look .
6	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 .
7	‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch .
8	‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror .
9	Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	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 .
13	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 .
14	that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands .
15	She exploded at me in the hospital .
16	‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia .
17	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 .
18	If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia .
19	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
20	You look at it in the dark ?
21	Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’
22	She could n't look at him in the face .
23	‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka .
24	They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said .
25	People turned to stare at her in the street .
26	She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her .
27	David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end .
28	As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case .
29	He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name .
30	His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered .