Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |
| 2 | I stared at it a long time . |
| 3 | I looked at him a long time , and the smile went away . |
| 4 | I looked at her a lot during that tea . |
| 5 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 6 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 7 | I looked at it an I said that 's French . |
| 8 | She nearly always does go to bed with me , if I shout at her a lot or threaten her or give her enough money . |
| 9 | I smiled at him a little and displayed no interest . |
| 10 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 11 | mum goes , do n't you swear at her no swearing thank you , and it 's like she hates swearing , it 's like , not even swearing cows and animals |
| 12 | If you look at it every ten minutes you notice it 's |
| 13 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 14 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |
| 15 | She stared at him a moment , then understood . |
| 16 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 17 | She stared at him a long while , then shrugged . |
| 18 | The broken sails of the old windmill stood out in silhouette against the sky like a scarecrow 's arms , and as she looked at them a sudden wonderful idea flashed into Cheryl 's mind . |
| 19 | She looked at him a moment , as if to read him , then smiled . |
| 20 | She looked at him a bit anxiously , wondering how she was going to tell him , and suddenly the hard face softened and he held out his hand . |
| 21 | She smiled at him a little wildly , not knowing what to say except that it seemed best to keep on talking . |
| 22 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 23 | I assure him that we look at them every year , but he is aware , as he said during his speech , that there are two different objectives : one is to make the assessments as simple as possible ; the other is to make them as fair as possible . |
| 24 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
| 25 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 26 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 27 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 28 | He looked at her a little warily . |
| 29 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 30 | He stared at her a moment , his eyes confused , pained . |