Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 2 | It can be a fairly minor loss , like social status or face — some people suffer agonies for fear that someone will laugh at them or sneer at their taste or intelligence , for example . |
| 3 | Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again . |
| 4 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 5 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 6 | It is , however , Falstaff himself that lies at the heart of the opera and Colin Rees proved a master of the role . |
| 7 | He stretched himself and looked at his watch . |
| 8 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 9 | Friar Tuck stirred himself and stared at the Trapper . |
| 10 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 11 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 12 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 13 | The bond equivalent yield is the coupon of a bond which when trading at par would give the same yield as a discount security . |
| 14 | The second thing productive I do n't think it 's productive for people to interrupt start shouting at me and chairing at me or shout shout at the platform cos I think all that 's gon na happen there is the meetings gon na disintegrate and nothing will be as right . |
| 15 | She was shouting at me and shouting at her own helplessness . |
| 16 | Come down with me and dance at the Casablanca Club . |
| 17 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 18 | If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes . |
| 19 | You could n't say , ‘ He made faces at me and swore at me . ’ |
| 20 | No , no , do n't interrupt me and look at me with those wild eyes . |
| 21 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 22 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 23 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 24 | Sam scampered on ahead of them and waited at Dobbs ' field . |
| 25 | They gathered their filthy , scant rags about them and screamed at me to go away , their putrid breath freezing on their blue lips . |
| 26 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 27 | They looked at them and looked at them and the more they did the less they understood . |
| 28 | Sherlock Holmes was listening with his eyes closed , but now he opened them and looked at Helen Stoner . |
| 29 | That 's right I mean this card is carried with them and looked at all every every basically everybody will look at that erm because the good quality |
| 30 | Their wings are often swept forward slightly although they can close them and dive at tremendous speeds ( Figure 9 ) . |