Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 2 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 3 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’ |
| 5 | It was easy to become mesmerized by the size of the budget , but when you looked at it in detail you found that almost half went on pensions and other payments to the elderly ; that 20 per cent went to families with children ; 17 per cent went to the unemployed ; and that 13 per cent went to the sick and disabled . |
| 6 | The other day , they 're dirty , they had n't been washed they 're dirty when you look at them in daylight . |
| 7 | You 're very beautiful , very provocative , when you look at me with those flirting eyes . ’ |
| 8 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 9 | Which , when you look at it into time and money , yes we pay forty pence flat a parcel but the girls can go out , once they , once they know their area , they know the roads and they know where they are they can go out and probably do about twenty parcels an hour . |
| 10 | Is that really so bad when you look at it in perspective ? |
| 11 | But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help . |
| 12 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 13 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 14 | When you look at it like that . |
| 15 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 16 | When she looked at him through eyes swimming with tears his face was taut with feeling , his eyes filled with burning tenderness . |
| 17 | Nothing compared to what her heart did when she looked at him like that . |
| 18 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 19 | But when she smiled at me like that , I thought she was the most beautiful woman in England . |
| 20 | Many of the laws which seem strangest to us fall into place , too , when we look at them in relation to the contemporary religions of Egypt and Canaan . |
| 21 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't mean we should get to know each other — ’ She broke off , not sure what she did mean when he looked at her in such open invitation . |
| 23 | And when he looked at her in mystification , as well he might , she realised , she went on , ‘ I 'd no idea until this morning that the same Naylor who came for you yesterday morning is my new boss ! ’ |
| 24 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
| 25 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 26 | The women were starting to wail , when he hissed at them to be quiet . |