Example sentences of "[verb] at me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 32 | Malc reappeared round the door , looked at me over the top of his specs and reached out and I walked towards his outstretched arms on liquid legs . |
| 33 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 34 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 35 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 36 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 37 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 38 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 39 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 40 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 41 | Margaret smiled at me over the table as if she had read my mind and was too happy to be anything but amused by the fact . |
| 42 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 43 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
| 44 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 45 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 47 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |