Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [pers pn] in the " in BNC.

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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 She exploded at me in the hospital .
6 She looked at me in the candle-light .
7 She slapped at him in the dark .
8 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 .
9 They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches .
10 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 .
11 He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name .
12 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 .
13 He looked at her in the driving mirror .
14 He looked at her in the light of the fire .
15 He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door .
16 ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box .
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