Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing at me for a moment , then asked : ‘ Everything in hand downstairs ? ’ |
| 2 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 3 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 4 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 5 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 6 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 7 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 8 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 9 | It 's just looking at it in a slightly different way and trying , I 've done some things there to show you a , a sort of a system to use , use your own if you like but I want to see what comes in , what goes out , every time energy changes from one form into another form . |
| 10 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 11 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 12 | You see , because they just look at it in a completely different way . |
| 13 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 14 | I appreciate that one must approach the matter with considerable caution , and that we can not go at it in a bull-at-a-gate fashion . |
| 15 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 16 | Instead , his dark eyes just looked at her with a haunting intentness as she ran away from him . |
| 17 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 18 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 19 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 20 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 21 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 22 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 23 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 24 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 25 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 26 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 27 | His life would be a charade , for every time he took her in his arms he would see the face of the girl now smiling at him in a way which lit fires in his heart . |
| 28 | Vitor said , climbing out to frown at her across the bonnet . |
| 29 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 30 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |