Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 32 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 33 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 34 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 35 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 36 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 37 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 38 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 39 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 40 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 41 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 42 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 43 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 44 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 45 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 46 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 47 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 48 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 49 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 50 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 51 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 52 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 53 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 54 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 55 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 56 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 57 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 58 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 59 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 60 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |