Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah |
| 32 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 35 | An ’ why 're you lookin' at me like that ? |
| 36 | What you all lookin' at me like that for ? ’ |
| 37 | To any casual observer it would have been a very comical sight A six foot one inch hulk of a man cavorting about and shouting at nothing in particular in a moonlit pool . |
| 38 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 39 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 40 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 41 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 42 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 43 | He said : ‘ It was always my intention to spend a couple of years looking at everyone with international potential , qualify for Sweden and then settle the squad down for the World Cup . |
| 44 | I 'M ALWAYS LOOKING AT MYSELF THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE 'S EYES |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 47 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 48 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 49 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 50 | 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 ) . |
| 51 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 52 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 53 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 54 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 55 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 56 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 57 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 58 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |