Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [pron] [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 He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy .
14 Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting .
15 ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’
16 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 .
17 It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on .
18 She was not now looking at him as a child looked .
19 Far more pertinently , the parallels with what is happening now scream at anyone with the slightest sense of history .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now .
24 The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted .
25 He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife .
26 ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia .
27 He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it .
28 ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit .
29 I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw .
30 ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down .
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