Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She yowled at him in complaint . |
| 2 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 3 | He looks at her in fear : ‘ the cleft was like a dumb , stupid mouth . ’ |
| 4 | Paul looks at him in surprise : ‘ Why , that 's the Eiffel Tower ! ’ |
| 5 | Evelyn gaped at her in amazement . |
| 6 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 7 | The thin , capable woman who was taking the riding-class looked at him in amazement as he leaned panting on the gate to the ring , the dog whining beside him . |
| 8 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 9 | Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket , pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement . |
| 10 | " Well , " she said , looking at them in turn again , lifting her face to gaze directly at Graham , " if I may make so bold , chaps , how about a drink ? |
| 11 | He stood looking at them in silence , his leather bag in his hand , tweed suit smelling strongly of pipe tobacco . |
| 12 | Gerald Hussey saw his wife looking at him in triumph and felt his heart sink . |
| 13 | She averted her gaze and saw that Giles was looking at her in concern . |
| 14 | Then , seeing Ricky looking at her in amazement , said quickly , ‘ Bart Alderton sounds hell . ’ |
| 15 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 16 | She turned swiftly and Johnny was standing there , looking at her in delight . |
| 17 | She eased the sharpness from her voice , aware that Fred was looking at her in surprise . |
| 18 | He stood looking at her in silence for a few moments and then gave a funny little smile , ruffled her hair and said : |
| 19 | ’ You 're priceless Cassie , ’ he said , grinning at her in delight . |
| 20 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 21 | I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal . |
| 22 | We look at them in close-up and we learn . |
| 23 | Introverts are more the other way round whereas they 've got narrow interests , narrow fields of interest but they look at them in depth . |
| 24 | Many of the laws which seem strangest to us fall into place , too , when we look at them in relation to the contemporary religions of Egypt and Canaan . |
| 25 | The other day , they 're dirty , they had n't been washed they 're dirty when you look at them in daylight . |
| 26 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 27 | Look at it in detail . |
| 28 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 29 | Is that really so bad when you look at it in perspective ? |
| 30 | They 'd look at me in surprise , so enthralled had they been . |