Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
2 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
3 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
4 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
7 | I looked at him over the roof . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I looked at her with a new respect . |
10 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
11 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
14 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
15 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
16 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
17 | She gazed at him with a worried frown . |
18 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
19 | She gazed at it for a moment . |
20 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
21 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
22 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
23 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
24 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
25 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
26 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
27 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
28 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
29 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
30 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |