Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 11 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 18 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 19 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |