Example sentences of "[verb] at i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | I was ashamed of him , especially as I could see Estella laughing at me over Miss Havisham 's shoulder . |
| 3 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 4 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 5 | Because I did n't want , because I did n't want people laughing at me like everyone 's here laughing at you . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't glare at me like that ! |
| 7 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 8 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 9 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 10 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 12 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 13 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 14 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 15 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 16 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 17 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 18 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 19 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 20 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 21 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 22 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 23 | Eva looks at me before replying . |
| 24 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 25 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 26 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 27 | The last time I had seen him , on the night of the fire , he had held my hands , told me I had saved his life , and looked at me as if he loved me . |
| 28 | I 'll never forget that I will never forget that , I had , I 'll told my mum like that we I told my mum we 'd be sleeping over and she said that was alright and she sort of looked at me as if to say mm , yes will Helena 's brother be there ? |
| 29 | Nobody has ever looked at me like that . |
| 30 | Looked at me like that . |