Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 32 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 33 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 34 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 35 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 36 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 37 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 38 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 39 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 40 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 41 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 42 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 43 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 44 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 45 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 46 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 47 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 48 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 49 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 50 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 51 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 52 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
| 53 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 54 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 55 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
| 56 | Salt was scowling at her like a dried prune . |
| 57 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |
| 58 | She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn . |