Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Marcus Judge glared at him under beetling brows .
2 Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment .
3 Mrs. Hennessy looked at him in surprise and switched the vacuum-cleaner off .
4 It was as though Wycliffe was giving her only part of his attention ; he seemed to have become absorbed in his own thoughts and when Sara stopped speaking there was an interval long enough for Lucy Lane to look at him with concern .
5 Miss Menzies looked at him as if he was mad .
6 Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle .
7 There were little tatters of paper at the bottom of the one by the fireplace , where the raffia and other handwork materials were kept , and Miss Fogerty looked at them with alarm and suspicion .
8 He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat .
9 Aunt Emily smiled at her in a puzzled manner and picked up a letter which lay on the quilt .
10 Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes .
11 Colonel Carteret glared at her with his fierce blue eye .
12 Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit .
13 Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated .
14 Mr Edgar looked at her in angry surprise .
15 Mr Crumwallis gazed at him in amazement , as if the worm had turned , and left him flabbergasted at the depths of human ingratitude suddenly exposed .
16 Mr Crumwallis looked at him in dyspeptic reproof , unused as he was to having his magisterial ramblings interrupted .
17 Mr Malik beamed at them in a fatherly manner .
18 Mr Braybrooke looked at her for a long moment .
19 When I explained about the sleeping man and his promise of a visa , Mr Saleb looked at me as if ! was talking gibberish .
20 Uncle Albert looked at her in surprise .
21 As she closed the door after her , Mr Kronweiser looked at it for a minute or two in puzzlement .
22 Uncle Walter looked at him with gratitude .
23 Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind .
24 Mrs Rumney looked at me in silence for a few moments and I saw in her face the dawning of relief and hope .
25 And yet Mrs Browning looked at her with hatred , her pale face growing steadily darker , and said , ‘ Leave me . ’
26 Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag .
27 As she took her own cup and settled herself again in her chair , Mrs McDougall looked at me over her spectacles and said comfortably : ‘ The girls will have told you about Ewen Mackay . ’
28 The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw .
29 Bull O'Malley stared at him in astonishment .
30 Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes .
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