Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 32 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 33 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 34 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 35 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 36 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 37 | He pronounced took like a curse , and mimed the bad men looking by jutting his head forward and glaring at her like a demented goldfish . |
| 38 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 39 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 40 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 41 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 42 | Jenna turned and looked at him in a startled manner . |
| 43 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 44 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 45 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 46 | He blinked and looked at me with a return of his tough expression . |
| 47 | Splashing her limbs to get used to the cold , she turned and looked at me with a hint of mischief , as I stood naked staring at her . |
| 48 | He stood and looked at her for a moment longer , his eyes running over her scathingly , taking in the beautiful , angry face , the wide and annoyed grey eyes and the tall , slender figure concealed in such efficient garments . |
| 49 | He stood and looked at her for a moment , hands on hips , jaw set . |
| 50 | He pursed his lips and looked at her with a frown . |
| 51 | He stood and looked at her with an expression of total innocence . |
| 52 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 53 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 54 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 55 | He took another step backwards and stared at her for a long moment before saying , ‘ This is the last time I 'll ever look on you willingly . ’ |
| 56 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 57 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 58 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 59 | She slid the geranium from her ear and stared at it for a moment , then shifted her gaze to her still unpacked cases by the door . |
| 60 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |