Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 2 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 3 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 4 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 5 | Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub . |
| 6 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 7 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 8 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 9 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 10 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 11 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 12 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |