Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 2 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 3 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 4 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 5 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 6 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 7 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 8 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 9 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 10 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 11 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 12 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 13 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 14 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 15 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 16 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 17 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 18 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 19 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 20 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 21 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 22 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
| 23 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 24 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 25 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 26 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 27 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 28 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 29 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |