Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 2 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 3 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 4 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 5 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 6 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 7 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 8 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 9 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 10 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 11 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'M ALWAYS LOOKING AT MYSELF THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE 'S EYES |
| 20 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 23 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 26 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 27 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 28 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |