Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
2 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
3 | She opened her eyes and gazed at him in disbelief . |
4 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
5 | He pursed his lips and looked at her with a frown . |
6 | She pursed her lips and stared at him with her grey eyes . |
7 | Either way , though , there was a belligerency about it , with dials that gazed at her like eyes ; mean , shifty eyes , warning her to beware . |
8 | Maggie shot to her feet and stared at him in astonishment , and at that moment Felipe de Santis walked past the room , his dark eyes taking everything at one swift glance — Mitch obviously just leaving , Maggie 's suddenly flushed face and wide eyes and the slightly rumpled bed where she had rested to talk to Mitch . |
9 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
10 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
11 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
12 | The baby deer nestled in her arms and looked at them with enormous brown unconcerned eyes . |
13 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
14 | ‘ Well , ’ he spread his hands and looked at me with his well-known youthful enquiry , ‘ what can I do for you ? ’ |
15 | Merrill clasped her hands and stared at him with softly humourous eyes . |
16 | Jess shivered , looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity . |
17 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
18 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
19 | Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket , pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement . |
20 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
21 | We will take each of the main triggering events and look at them in more detail . |