Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 2 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 3 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 4 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 5 | It 's just looking at it in a slightly different way and trying , I 've done some things there to show you a , a sort of a system to use , use your own if you like but I want to see what comes in , what goes out , every time energy changes from one form into another form . |
| 6 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 7 | You see , because they just look at it in a completely different way . |
| 8 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 9 | Instead , his dark eyes just looked at her with a haunting intentness as she ran away from him . |
| 10 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 11 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 12 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 13 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 14 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 15 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 16 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 17 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 18 | His life would be a charade , for every time he took her in his arms he would see the face of the girl now smiling at him in a way which lit fires in his heart . |
| 19 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 20 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 21 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 22 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 23 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 24 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 25 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 26 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 27 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 28 | Reaching across , he slammed the door again , then glared at her from the space of inches . |
| 29 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 30 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |