Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 2 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 3 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 4 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 5 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 6 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 7 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 8 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 9 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 10 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 11 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 12 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 13 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 16 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 17 | He looked at me across the room . |
| 18 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 19 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 21 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |