Example sentences of "they [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 2 | Both of them looked at her for a second , then continued their hushed conversation . |
| 3 | All three of them stared at it for an instant . |
| 4 | They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles . |
| 5 | Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus . |
| 6 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 7 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |