Example sentences of "was [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 2 | She played with her leather gloves , turning each finger inside-out then carefully back again , aware that he was looking at her in that old , familiar searching way that somehow held her spellbound , draining her will to push the door and get away . |
| 3 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 4 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 5 | Alyssia sat up quickly and looked at Piers , who was staring at her with that perpetual look of lazy mockery on his face . |