Example sentences of "at i [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 2 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 3 | Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment . |
| 4 | Kodiak the Alsatian barked at me for a few minutes , and gave up in resignation . |
| 5 | The Brigadier glared at me for a few seconds and replied rather quietly . |
| 6 | It stared at me for a few seconds , then the lens flashed again , a key was put into the lock , bolts were drawn and the door was opened . |
| 7 | That name clearly struck a chord in McIllvanney , for he frowned at me for a few seconds , but the chord must have faded for he shrugged it off . |
| 8 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 9 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 10 | The doctor looked at me with a disgruntled expression . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She looked at me with a defiant grin and a twinkle in her eye . |
| 13 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 14 | He looked at me with a quizzical lift to his eyebrows . |
| 15 | He looked up at me with a little grin operating on half his mouth only . |
| 16 | Signe looked at me with a wide-eyed look of sadness . |
| 17 | She looked at me with a sudden hope . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 19 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 20 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 21 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 22 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 23 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 24 | But in a book he 's written he 's had a real big pop at me in a sour way . |
| 25 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 26 | He half-levelled the rifle at me in a menacing way . |
| 27 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 28 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 29 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |
| 30 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |