Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for all of us , the short , sharp shock of illogical fear ( the brakes temporarily fail on your car , or someone comes at you with a knife ) is helpful . |
| 2 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 3 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 4 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 5 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 6 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 7 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 8 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 9 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 10 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 11 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 15 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 16 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 17 | I , I just ask him if , and it , the question that I 'm interested in the answer to , like how did it go ? and , now he talks at me for an hour until Diane comes in and says enough Vaughany , cos she can see I sort of trying to edge away |
| 18 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |