Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in the [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 | ‘ 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 7 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 8 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 14 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 15 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 20 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 22 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 23 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 24 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 25 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 26 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 27 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 30 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |