Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 4 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 5 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 6 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 7 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 8 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 9 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
| 10 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 11 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
| 12 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |
| 13 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
| 14 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 15 | Then , with sound like a rippling machine gun , arms outstretched and a face-splitting smile , you speed spectacularly towards the audience , a different light flashing magically as your heels lightly clip each step.The effect is stunning , like somebody racing at you on an escalator only much , much better . |
| 16 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 17 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 18 | Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry . |
| 19 | They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles . |
| 20 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 21 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 22 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 24 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 25 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 26 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 27 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 28 | But she snapped , ‘ I 'm not tired , I 'm not , ’ glaring at him like an enemy , and he felt a sour weariness at the prospect of the long , white night ahead of them . |
| 29 | The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence . |
| 30 | All three of them stared at it for an instant . |