Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 2 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 3 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 4 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 5 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 6 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 7 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 8 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 9 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 10 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 20 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 21 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 22 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |