Example sentences of "he kept [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept whistling at all the girls , going shut up ! |
| 2 | He kept grinning at them as though they were all three the very best of friends , but clearly that was n't quite so . |
| 3 | His English was reserved for me and he kept shouting at me and pleading with me to check that ‘ all equipment ’ and ‘ my suitcase — the brown one , you know ’ were all safely stowed . |
| 4 | Surely she was too thin by far for a man 's taste , yet the one at her side today was a toff and no mistake , and it was obvious he cared about the girl by the way he kept looking at her with concern in his eyes . |
| 5 | That would be a matter of opinion ; he had a newspaper which he kept looking at , and shaking out . |
| 6 | When she talked to him as though he was our father , demanding to know when was he going to mow that lawn , he kept looking at me , appealing to me to do something : but that 's the whole point , Davey boy , I thought , there 's nothing to be done . |
| 7 | Fran tried to inject a dash of disdain into the denial , but it was hard when he kept looking at her mouth that way . |
| 8 | He was given lots of cuddles because he kept looking at us as if to say ‘ What has happened to me ? ’ ‘ |
| 9 | She said , he looked dead worried when he walked away from you , he kept looking at you . |
| 10 | One smart fellow he smell fa Well he kept looking at me did n't he ? |
| 11 | Parker 's face was a mask of blood and he kept brushing at his eye . |
| 12 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |