Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 2 | She peered at him curiously from beneath her fringe of blonde hair . |
| 3 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 4 | So I go , have a job to find it he just looks at me hard as nails . |
| 5 | 18 Then , she gives a small qUeeEEP ? . 19 Generally , Birdie looks at me more with her right eye than her left . |
| 6 | Nobody actually looks at it apart from me , so I 'm not embarrassed about writing that there . |
| 7 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |
| 8 | She had solved his problem with Ana , belonged to him , and he had looked at her deeply with a great deal of affection . |
| 9 | That 'll go , 'cos you should have looked at them in between . |
| 10 | It had hung in Maggie 's bedroom for as long as Phoebe could remember : she had not looked at it properly for years . |
| 11 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 12 | Again , we 're back to this idea that , you know , it 's ridiculous stuck in a drama course and not and , and looking at them just as , as text . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 14 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 15 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 16 | ‘ You , ’ said Ellie , finally looking at him straight in his watery red eyes . |
| 17 | His WPC was looking at him anxiously for guidance , but he shook his head at her slightly and waited , standing squarely on both feet as he had done in many trying circumstances before . |
| 18 | Maxwell 's face had darkened and his wife was looking at him anxiously as if she would like to interfere . |
| 19 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 20 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
| 21 | Ho was looking at him now with a sneer on his face . |
| 22 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 23 | She kept looking at me today in |
| 24 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 25 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 26 | Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk . |
| 27 | She turned to meet his gaze , and her heart was suddenly beating a tattoo in her chest , because he was looking at her again with that dark , broody expression in his eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ How long are you going to keep this up , Jessamy ? ’ he enquired , looking at her now with new intensity . |
| 29 | But why was he looking at her now with no sign of warmth in his glance ? |
| 30 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |