Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ he said , and seemed to look at her as if to gauge how love looked in a person 's eyes . |
| 3 | The male Ixmaritians paid him little heed and seemed to look at him as if he was a freak , but two girls , who occupied the rooms next to his own , became his especial friends . |
| 4 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 5 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 6 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 7 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 8 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |