Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 2 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 3 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 4 | Well I ca n't get asthma when he 's looking at me like that . |
| 5 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 6 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 7 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 8 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 9 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 10 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 11 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 12 | He was looking at me from under his dark brows , his voice low . |
| 13 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 14 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 15 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 16 | He was looking at her with frank enjoyment that seemed untainted by any sort of guilt . |
| 17 | He was looking at her with amusement , and a sort of hungry satisfaction . |
| 18 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 19 | He was looking at her with frowning concentration . |
| 20 | He was looking at her with faint amusement in his eyes , one eyebrow slightly raised , and she became aware that he was quite used to this reaction from women to his undoubted charisma . |
| 21 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 22 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 23 | He was looking at her as if he was wondering , will she be all right ? |
| 24 | He was looking at her from beneath thick brows . |
| 25 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 26 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 27 | She played with her leather gloves , turning each finger inside-out then carefully back again , aware that he was looking at her in that old , familiar searching way that somehow held her spellbound , draining her will to push the door and get away . |
| 28 | He was screaming at her from down in the channel . |
| 29 | And as she stared , there was interposed on the fair skin face of a man , a thin man , and he was leering at her as if in triumph , as he would do if he were to get hold of this unusual-looking child , for he 'd make a pretty penny out of her , no matter what channel he sent her along , his nursery , the street , or the boat . |
| 30 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |