Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 2 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 3 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 4 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 5 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 6 | Good headlines did scream at you in those days . |
| 7 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 8 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 9 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 10 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 12 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 13 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 14 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 15 | He paused staring at her with half-closed eyes so that Emily could not read his expression . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , misses , ’ the driver said staring at her in open curiosity , ‘ I 'll take you to a very respectable lodging house run by a real lady . |
| 17 | I stood staring at them in utter bewilderment . |
| 18 | Jessamy wanted to shout at him in sheer frustration . |