Example sentences of "[v-ing] at he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does the moon shine in the night sky ? ’ she mocked shakily , laughing at him through her tears . |
| 2 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 3 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | She was biting on her lip , distressed , frowning at him under her fringe of red hair . |
| 6 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 7 | oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 10 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 11 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 12 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 13 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 14 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 15 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 16 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 17 | That has its charm , ’ said his mother , looking at him through her silver glasses . |
| 18 | First , he saw her looking at him through binoculars , something he would n't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra . |
| 19 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 20 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 21 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 22 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 23 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 24 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 25 | Elinor was looking at him with what might have been respect . |
| 26 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 27 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 28 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 29 | You 'll have to ask him , ’ she said , looking at him with delight . |
| 30 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |