Example sentences of "[verb] at i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
3 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
4 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
5 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
6 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
7 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
8 | He looks at me for a second . |
9 | He looks at me for the first time . |
10 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
11 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
12 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
13 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
14 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
15 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
16 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
17 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
18 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
19 | and she said I do n't like to tell time , she kept going , looking at me with a ca n't believe how stupid you are |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
26 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
27 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
28 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
29 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
30 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |