Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 2 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 3 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 4 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 5 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 6 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 7 | I watched his face as he blinked rapidly and he looked at me in disgust , or was it disbelief ? |
| 8 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 9 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 10 | Carrie said , thinking of the things Hepzibah had told her , how he 'd worked all his life and had no help from anyone , and he looked at her with surprise . |
| 11 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |
| 12 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 13 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
| 14 | And he laughed at her like a boy . |
| 15 | A figure popped out of a doorway to Alexei 's left , and he cut at it with his sword and ran on . |
| 16 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 17 | His collarbone ached , and he dug at it with his good arm , massaging the stiffness with his fingers . |
| 18 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 19 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |