Example sentences of "at [pron] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked up at me steadily for a moment before she spoke . |
| 2 | He looked at me quietly for a moment . |
| 3 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 4 | She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room . |
| 5 | If I had a gun here yeah and I knew and you were coming at me like with a club and I shouted , Stop . |
| 6 | In an instant they were kneeling in silence by the bed with bowed foreheads ; and the sick boy tenderly put his hands on their heads , and pushed the frail white fingers through their hair , and looked at them tearfully without a word , till they hid their faces with their hands , and broke into deep suppressed sobs of compassion . |
| 7 | But look at them once in a while . |
| 8 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 9 | Her youth blazed at them suddenly like a torch kindled , a thin , bright , deeply-moulded face all pearl-tinted skin over abrupt , burnished bone , with a wide , firm , full-lipped mouth , and dark eyes . |
| 10 | Flicks at you verbally with a rapier . ’ |
| 11 | He stared at her steadily for a moment and then nodded . |
| 12 | He looked at her steadily for a moment and then his hard expression softened considerably . |
| 13 | He stared at her incredulously for a moment , then , as he began to speak , she forestalled him . |
| 14 | Detective Inspector Aziz looked at her carefully for a minute . |
| 15 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 16 | Her mother looked at her vacantly for a moment , then she said in a weak voice , ‘ My poor girl . |
| 17 | We gazed at her blankly for a moment before recovering and saying we would , please . |
| 18 | Lissa stared at her blankly for a moment . |
| 19 | He stared at her blankly for a moment . |
| 20 | He stared at her bleakly for a moment then turned on his heel . |
| 21 | He looked at her still with a touch of resistance . |
| 22 | ‘ Not your day , is it , Duvall ? ’ said Jimmy , and Duvall glared hard at him again with a look that spoke again of reckonings to come after the nightmare was over . |
| 23 | She stared at him hopelessly for a fraction of a second and then she looked away as tears sprang into her eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not them I 'm — ’ She broke off , stared at him intently for a moment , then said : ‘ What do you know about me , Mr … |
| 25 | Theda continued to look at him uncertainly for a moment . |
| 26 | She looked at him enigmatically for a moment , and then said , ‘ I have kept you from something . |
| 27 | Sylvie looked at him uncomprehendingly for a moment . |
| 28 | Rostov looked at him levelly for a moment , then he turned away . |
| 29 | Whenever Doris was n't looking , Charlie would play peek-a-boo with her and she would stare at him stonily for a minute and then turn her head pointedly away . |
| 30 | I looked at him doubtfully for a moment . |