Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 2 | Granny was staring at me with her eyes wide open . |
| 3 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 4 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 5 | However , the marquis was looking at her with affection and she took courage in both hands . |
| 6 | ‘ Every morning this time the bus is full of nuts , ’ the driver said with violence , not even visibly addressing me , though his right eye was glaring at me in his driving mirror . |
| 7 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 8 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 9 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 10 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Suddenly he realized that everyone in the queue was staring at him with frank interest and uninhibited hostility . |
| 13 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 14 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 15 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 16 | Quigley was looking at me in open horror now . |
| 17 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
| 18 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 19 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 20 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 21 | I 'm still staring at the branch ; it 's like my brain 's screaming at me inside my own head and I do n't know what else it is that 's listening , except it is n't listening ; my brain 's screaming Run ! |
| 22 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 23 | Elinor was looking at him with what might have been respect . |
| 24 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're the obvious person to do it , ’ Cara , ignoring that her sister was staring at her in total disbelief , went on . |
| 27 | Hoomey was looking at her from under the seat in front . |
| 28 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |
| 29 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 30 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |