Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for all of us , the short , sharp shock of illogical fear ( the brakes temporarily fail on your car , or someone comes at you with a knife ) is helpful . |
| 2 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 3 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 4 | On the cover Horowitz himself beams at us like a naughty gnome , and that is just the way his irrepressible musical personality comes over in the performances . |
| 5 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 6 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 7 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 8 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 9 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 10 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 11 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 12 | She smiles at me as if she really likes me . |
| 13 | She gazes at it in mild dislike . |
| 14 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 15 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |
| 16 | He looks at her in fear : ‘ the cleft was like a dumb , stupid mouth . ’ |
| 17 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 18 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 19 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 22 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 23 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 25 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 26 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 27 | He stares at you in raptures . |
| 28 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 29 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 30 | He glares at me from beneath his eyelashes . |