Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [be] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he was looking at the station as if , to see if a train was in or something |
| 2 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 3 | I thought he was laughing at me . |
| 4 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 5 | With a stab of pain she realised he was laughing at her . |
| 6 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 7 | A snort from the pony interrupted her day dreaming ; and immediately her slight body stiffened : walking quickly down the road towards her was a man , and even over the distance she knew he was smiling at her . |
| 8 | She knew he was laughing at her . |
| 9 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 10 | The man smiled at her and though she did n't understand why , she felt he was laughing at her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 13 | As his eyes focused he realized he was looking at a hideously swollen human body , and just then , as the light breeze shifted , he caught the stomach-turning odour of decay . |
| 14 | Instead he found he was looking at a short , rather stout middle-aged man . |
| 15 | Anyway , he insisted he was coming at half past seven . |
| 16 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 17 | He said he was going at 40 to 60 miles per hour . |
| 18 | In his statement , he said he was travelling at about 55mph . |