Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise .
2 The policeman looked at me for a long time .
3 She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time .
4 Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment .
5 He winked at me with a slight shake of his head .
6 He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed .
7 The doctor looked at me with a disgruntled expression .
8 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 .
9 She looked at me with a defiant grin and a twinkle in her eye .
10 He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing .
11 He looked at me with a quizzical lift to his eyebrows .
12 He looked up at me with a little grin operating on half his mouth only .
13 Signe looked at me with a wide-eyed look of sadness .
14 She looked at me with a sudden hope .
15 ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety .
16 She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now .
17 I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation .
18 While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog .
19 ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up .
20 Rubbing his glasses clean , he peered intently over at me through the thin rain .
21 He was looking at me in a desperate way .
22 I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would .
23 And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me .
24 But in a book he 's written he 's had a real big pop at me in a sour way .
25 He was looking at me in a puzzled way .
26 He half-levelled the rifle at me in a menacing way .
27 For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them .
28 ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way .
29 ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box .
30 She glanced at me in an odd way .
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