Example sentences of "were [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 4 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 5 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 6 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 9 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 10 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 11 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 12 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 13 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |