Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 2 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |
| 3 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 4 | As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them . |
| 5 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 6 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 7 | Bryan even came to my home and scoffed at me for suggesting that he and the Duchess were lovers . |
| 8 | Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head . |
| 9 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 10 | Roman sat on a corner of her desk and looked at her with such a grave expression that she cried out in alarm . |
| 11 | He turned his wrinkled face towards the young hedgehog and looked at her with his deep brown eyes . |
| 12 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 13 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 14 | Here we have a team unafraid to break out from any area of the field and run at you with ball in hand . |
| 15 | Nor did he take colleague John McEnroe to task for abusing the Swiss non-playing captain , hitting balls at their team and gesturing at them with his racket . |
| 16 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 17 | Perdita sat up , blew her nose and looked at him with red , swollen eyes . |
| 18 | She paused , turned to me , put her sunglasses down her nose and looked at me over them . |
| 19 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 20 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 21 | She moved suddenly , unable to stay still as she walked into the room and stared at him with contempt . |
| 22 | She sat by herself in the dining room and looked at me over Anne 's head . |
| 23 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 24 | ‘ More like a full metamorphosis , ’ he drawled , leaning back against the huge , craggy trunk of the tree and gazing at her with wicked eyes . |
| 25 | Myles raised his head and stared at him with wide terror-filled eyes . |
| 26 | Through the open door I could see Harry hanging on to the horse 's head and staring at me with frightened eyes . |
| 27 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |
| 28 | She turned from the stove and looked at him with troubled eyes . |
| 29 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 30 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |