Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pagan gods , birds and beasts sacred to the Celts of old stared at me sagely from every hand . |
| 2 | She looked at me crossly over the breakfast table . |
| 3 | She looked up at me steadily for a moment before she spoke . |
| 4 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 5 | The sun-bathed wall which forms the south face of Lomnicky Stit winked at me early in the trip . |
| 6 | He looked at me quietly for a moment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room . |
| 9 | If I had a gun here yeah and I knew and you were coming at me like with a club and I shouted , Stop . |
| 10 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But look at them once in a while . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Flicks at you verbally with a rapier . ’ |
| 16 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 17 | The lift arrived as she said the name , and the two people inside looked at her curiously through the metal lattice . |
| 18 | He stared at her steadily for a moment and then nodded . |
| 19 | He looked at her steadily for a moment and then his hard expression softened considerably . |
| 20 | He stared at her incredulously for a moment , then , as he began to speak , she forestalled him . |
| 21 | Detective Inspector Aziz looked at her carefully for a minute . |
| 22 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |
| 23 | But why was he looking at her now with no sign of warmth in his glance ? |
| 24 | Her mother looked at her vacantly for a moment , then she said in a weak voice , ‘ My poor girl . |
| 25 | We gazed at her blankly for a moment before recovering and saying we would , please . |
| 26 | Lissa stared at her blankly for a moment . |
| 27 | He stared at her blankly for a moment . |
| 28 | He stared at her bleakly for a moment then turned on his heel . |
| 29 | Susan 's husband had stared at her bleakly from the bed , already certain of her betrayal . |
| 30 | He lifted his close-shaven muzzle and looked at her hard over the monitor of his reader . |