Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
| 4 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 5 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 6 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 9 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 10 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 13 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 14 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 15 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 17 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 18 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 24 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 25 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 26 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |