Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 2 | Eva looks at me before replying . |
| 3 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |
| 4 | She could n't even glance at him without feeling a little strange , and he never had any pleasant look on his face . |
| 5 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 6 | He was looking at her with frowning concentration . |
| 7 | Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ? |
| 8 | It was three days now since the wedding and yet he could not look at her without thinking that . |
| 9 | His Metropole is a Cathedral of such awe- inspiring magnificence that no one can look at it without feeling he is in the presence of a concept beyond human scale . |
| 10 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 11 | I was disappointed at this and was afraid she was still vexed at me for bringing Frankie . |
| 12 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 13 | She was caught up in her work , in the looking it required , a gaze that was intense and scrutinising without allowing any personal exchange of feeling to take place , when he was all at once bearing down on her , shouting , his right fist tight around his weapon , his left hand hitting the air and pointing at her with accusing index finger . |
| 14 | Old Red looked up from the floor , and glanced at me before answering . |
| 15 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 16 | He was ashamed of the way his father sat in his armchair staring at them without joining in the conversation , or even rudely reading as they talked . |
| 17 | The man swore at her before turning away , the seagulls screeching above his battered hat . |
| 18 | He stared at them without speaking , conveying his meaning by the blank coldness of his gaze . |
| 19 | They stared at him in gathering alarm , while his own fears abated . |
| 20 | She stared at him in wondering exasperation . |
| 21 | Hester stared at her without speaking . |
| 22 | Hala was little and round and fat like a quail , and the girl , like a cat , stared at her in unblinking silence . |
| 23 | His friend , a tall , bearded man in a black vest with a pair of garden shears in his hand , stared at me without smiling . |
| 24 | He stared at me before writing again . |
| 25 | Then she could dress herself — though Ember was right : the others laughed at her for wearing clothes in the burrow , even the other two or three towers , and their mockery made her retreat in teenage confusion when she walked shyly into the crowded common-room . |
| 26 | He laughed at me for missing out on perfect Pipe the day before . |
| 27 | He looked at her under frowning brows . |
| 28 | You know — ’ He pulled in his chin as he looked at her before continuing , ‘ It 's odd , but none of the other girls I 've brought to the house over the years have seemed to arouse your animosity . |
| 29 | Phil looked at him with bulging horror and searched around the metallic ward for some wood to touch , drumming his fingers at last in relief on the top of the locker . |
| 30 | She looked at him without blinking and said they probably had been . |