Example sentences of "was [verb] at [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
2 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
3 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
8 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
9 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
10 | By contrast , the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million . |
11 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
12 | Sprawled over them were two more eunuchs ; one was staring at herself in a mirror , applying lipstick , the other was combing her hair . |
13 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
14 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
15 | She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn . |