Example sentences of "she be [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour .
2 The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens .
3 I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother .
4 Her arm was draped elegantly across his shoulders , and she was looking at him with eyes like headlights , as though she were starving and he were a cream cake .
5 And Matey badly needed help ; indeed , she was looking at him with something like approval .
6 He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else .
7 He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression .
8 She was looking at him with recrimination .
9 But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends .
10 I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch .
11 But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry .
12 She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now .
13 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 .
14 oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him
15 On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity .
16 She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn .
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