Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually if he calls me , he wants to shout at me about something . |
| 2 | She also got quite a shock when she saw his face as he turned to look at her on film . |
| 3 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 4 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 5 | He turned to glance at her as if the sound of her laugh was quite pleasant to his ears . |
| 6 | It set him aside , he began to look at them with Barnett 's and Lewis 's eyes , thinking of them as unsuccessful because they did n't try . |
| 7 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 8 | Surely she was too thin by far for a man 's taste , yet the one at her side today was a toff and no mistake , and it was obvious he cared about the girl by the way he kept looking at her with concern in his eyes . |
| 9 | He was given lots of cuddles because he kept looking at us as if to say ‘ What has happened to me ? ’ ‘ |
| 10 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 11 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 12 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 13 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 14 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 15 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 16 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 17 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 18 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |
| 19 | He was gon na tell you this morning he said look at me with daddy ! |
| 20 | He paused staring at her with half-closed eyes so that Emily could not read his expression . |
| 21 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 22 | When he had finished he sat glaring at them in defiance and pride . |
| 23 | He stood looking at them in silence , his leather bag in his hand , tweed suit smelling strongly of pipe tobacco . |
| 24 | He stood looking at her in his dark , gloomy way . |
| 25 | He stood looking at her in silence for a few moments and then gave a funny little smile , ruffled her hair and said : |
| 26 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 27 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |