Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
| 4 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
| 5 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 6 | Nick Stanton gazed at her with an uncustomary scowl . |
| 7 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 8 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 9 | McKitrick 's house lounged on a maple-strewn ridge , sleek and contemporary , with a gable end sporting one huge circular window that stared down at her like an unblinking eye . |
| 10 | It nagged at her like an aching tooth . |
| 11 | The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence . |
| 12 | The anger and resentment expressed at every level , from street vendor to middle-class intellectual , was almost entirely directed at Washington , not at him as an individual American . |
| 13 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 14 | Burger looked at him with an odd expression . |
| 15 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 16 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 17 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 18 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 19 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 20 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 21 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 22 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 23 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |