Example sentences of "was [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
2 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
3 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
4 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
7 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
8 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
9 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
10 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
11 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
12 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
13 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
14 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
15 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
16 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
17 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
21 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
22 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
23 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
24 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
25 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
26 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
27 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
28 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
29 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
30 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |