Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
2 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
3 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
4 | I looked at him over the roof . |
5 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
6 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
7 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
8 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
9 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
10 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
11 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
12 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
13 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
14 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
15 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
16 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
17 | You look at it in the dark ? |
18 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
19 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
20 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
21 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
22 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
23 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
24 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
25 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
26 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
27 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
28 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
29 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
30 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |