Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 2 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 3 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 4 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 9 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
| 10 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 11 | 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 . |