Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 32 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 33 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 34 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 35 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 36 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 37 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 38 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 39 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 40 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 41 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 42 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 43 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 44 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 45 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 46 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 47 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 48 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 49 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 50 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 51 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 52 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 53 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 54 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 55 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 56 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 57 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 58 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 59 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 60 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |