Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 2 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 3 | I looked at her in mock sternness . |
| 4 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 5 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 6 | Cooper said : ‘ Would you be happy if someone jumped at you with two feet ? ’ |
| 7 | As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back . |
| 8 | She gazed at him in blank astonishment . |
| 9 | She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home . |
| 10 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 11 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |
| 12 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 13 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 14 | She glanced at him in quick surprise , wondering what sort of favour he could possibly have in mind . |
| 15 | She grabbed at it in irritable haste . |
| 16 | He said he should have said that morning that if you looked at Dynmouth in one way you saw it prettily , with its tea-shops and lace ; and that if you looked at it in another way there was Timothy Gedge . |
| 17 | Stopping in her tracks , she stared at him with cool , blank eyes and freed her arm . |
| 18 | She stared at him with defiant hazel eyes . |
| 19 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |
| 20 | But … you said — ’ Horror-struck , she stared at him with frightened eyes . |
| 21 | But — ’ she stared at him with saucer-wide eyes ‘ — are n't you furious with me ? ’ |
| 22 | She stared at him with large serious eyes . |
| 23 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 24 | ‘ I know , ’ he admitted softly and she stared at him in astonished disbelief . |
| 25 | She stared at him in some amazement , and looking rather confused , João backed out and left her with her Imitation . |
| 26 | And while she stared at him in some astonishment , ‘ I would never harm you , ’ he added . |
| 27 | She stared at him in growing disbelief . |
| 28 | Guy 's voice was harsh , the taut mask of detachment crumbling as she stared at him in bleak misery . |
| 29 | I played it to my mother and she stared at me in total disbelief . |
| 30 | The moment Melissa entered the house , she clutched at her with both hands . |