Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 2 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 3 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 6 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 7 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 8 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 11 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 12 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 13 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 14 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 15 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | It 's just looking at it in a slightly different way and trying , I 've done some things there to show you a , a sort of a system to use , use your own if you like but I want to see what comes in , what goes out , every time energy changes from one form into another form . |
| 19 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 20 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 21 | You look at me in a way that is familiar . |
| 22 | Look at them in a new way . |
| 23 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 24 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 25 | If you look at it in a certain way , right , it shows your ignorance , I mean you 're over in England , right , for so long — I mean to say you should know what to chat in front of certain people , right ? |
| 26 | You see , because they just look at it in a completely different way . |
| 27 | ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’ |
| 28 | He thinks we 'll look at it in a different light . |
| 29 | Erm well yours is different so we 'll look at yours in a minute . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |