Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 2 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 3 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 5 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 6 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 7 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 8 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 9 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 10 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 11 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 12 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 15 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 16 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 17 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 18 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 19 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 20 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 21 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 22 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 23 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 24 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 25 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 26 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 27 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 28 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 29 | ‘ These days , ’ he said , looking at her in a way which took away what little breath she had left , ‘ I have this picture etched in my brain . |
| 30 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |