Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I did n't want , because I did n't want people laughing at me like everyone 's here laughing at you . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't glare at me like that ! |
| 3 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 4 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless Flixe needs me , ’ he said , looking at his wife with a mixture of protectiveness and adoration that made Julia think back to her own honeymoon and wonder whether Anthony had ever looked at her like that . |
| 6 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 7 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
| 8 | Nobody has ever looked at me like that . |
| 9 | Looked at me like that . |
| 10 | He had not really looked at it like that before . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't looked at it like that . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah |
| 13 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 14 | An ’ why 're you lookin' at me like that ? |
| 15 | What you all lookin' at me like that for ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 18 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 19 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 20 | What are you looking at him like that for ? |
| 21 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 22 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 23 | She could still hear her mother 's voice saying , ‘ Do n't sit looking at me like that , child ; say something . ’ |
| 24 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 25 | ‘ That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now , ’ he said , ‘ and for your wickedness in hiding , and for looking at me like that , you rat ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression . |
| 27 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 28 | Why was she looking at me like that ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Leonora . |
| 30 | Impulsively she asked , ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ and immediately regretted having spoken her thoughts aloud . |