Example sentences of "be [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 34 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 35 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 36 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 37 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 38 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 39 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 40 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 41 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 42 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 43 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 44 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 45 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 46 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 47 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 48 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 49 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |
| 50 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 51 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 52 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 53 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 54 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 55 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 56 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 57 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |