Example sentences of "was [verb] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Things were getting interesting at last , Lacuna was dumbstruck , and no-one except her was looking at anything except the screens . |
| 12 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 15 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 16 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 17 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 18 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 21 | I went home and I st I got very very anxious , I started feeling suicidal , I was blubbering at everything on the television , now I could cry but I was crying too much . |
| 22 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |