Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 2 | I hummed , and my father glared at me over jaws like heaving wrestlers . |
| 3 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I feel so silly with my lord gazing at me from head to foot and Sir Jacob grinning and laughing like an oaf . |
| 4 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 5 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 6 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 7 | Her parents gazed at her in astonishment . |
| 8 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
| 9 | Her husband looked at her with annoyance in his cold blue eyes , his thin lips pursed in an expression she knew very well . |
| 10 | She raised her head to look at him between her bare knees . |
| 11 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 12 | The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers . |
| 13 | Her father glared at her as if he suspected her of having the whole thing arranged behind his back . |
| 14 | Her father grinned at her from over the rim of his spectacles . |
| 15 | Her father looked at her in open admiration . |
| 16 | Her companion stared at her as if to fathom her motives . |
| 17 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |
| 18 | His fear screamed at him to bolt , but he forced his mind into action , to plan the run sensibly . |
| 19 | His eyes sparked at her like firecrackers . |
| 20 | His voice was quiet , matter-of-fact and kind , and his eyes smiled at her with interest and curiosity , she thought , beyond the mere charm he must use by native grace upon all who came near him and were weaker than he . |
| 21 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 22 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 23 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 24 | Gerald Hussey saw his wife looking at him in triumph and felt his heart sink . |
| 25 | He turned his head to stare at me as if he could n't at once comprehend my interest , but then , understanding , said of course I could go if I wanted to . |
| 26 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 27 | Buddie lowered his newspaper and turned his head to look at her from beneath furrowed black brows . |
| 28 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 29 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 30 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |