Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 2 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 3 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 4 | And as I marvelled at his breathtaking skiing the cost of a coffee in the Nederhutte mountain restaurant was not top of my concerns . |
| 5 | I smile at his tremulous respect mixed with greediness . |
| 6 | I looked at his young wife , Dawn , with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end . |
| 7 | And I looked at his sad face . |
| 8 | I looked at his plastered leg . |
| 9 | Princess Ashraf later wrote that as Carter spoke , " I looked at his pale face . |
| 10 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 11 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 12 | She gazed at his dark face , abruptly appalled . |
| 13 | Her voice had grown jerky and breathless and she caught at his caressing hand . |
| 14 | She winced at his ruthless manipulation , and he moved forwards quickly , confounding her by kneeling and pulling away her hands , holding them by her sides , the weight of his body pressing against her as his mouth came inexorably closer towards her pulsating nipple . |
| 15 | She squinted at his sunstarred silhouette . |
| 16 | She bridled at his autocratic tone . |
| 17 | She flinched at his ill-judged choice of words . |
| 18 | She glanced at his strong profile , staring ahead at the snowbound road . |
| 19 | She glanced at his half-seen profile with the sunset flashing over his cheekbones as the ship banked for landing . |
| 20 | She laughed at his outraged expression . |
| 21 | She stared at his blank face . |
| 22 | She stared at his ruthless face and felt afraid . |
| 23 | She looked at his broad back , then at the short trousers , and smiled to herself , returning her attention to her coffee . |
| 24 | She looked at his crumpled clothing , and the dark shadow on his jaw . |
| 25 | She looked at his imploring face , and felt a stab of guilt , that he was right , that she 'd better take care … . |
| 26 | She looked at his white face and the traces of sick round his mouth and wanted to shake him . |
| 27 | The pain was intense , gripping her with its cruel talons , biting deep , but not so deep that it wiped out the sudden rush of anger she felt at his blind stubbornness . |
| 28 | She smiled at his sleeping form . |
| 29 | She smiled at his deliberate avoidance of her questions . |
| 30 | Thoroughly incensed , she glared at his handsome face . |