Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
3 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
4 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
5 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
8 | So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other . |