Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 32 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 33 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 34 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 35 | Everybody will be looking at them as scabs , wherever they go . |
| 36 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 37 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 38 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 39 | What would I be looking at it with ? |
| 40 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 41 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 42 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |
| 43 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 44 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 45 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 46 | The eyes seemed to be staring at him with peculiar intensity , as though he were a rare specimen whose every move must be observed . |
| 47 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 48 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 49 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 50 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 51 | But more than that , as I have said already , a demoralized teaching force that feels disenfranchised from the process of educational change will be resistant to the changes that are thrown at them by outsiders . |
| 52 | The biggest challenges that most of us have to deal with are invariably those that are thrown at us by fate . ’ |
| 53 | And she realized that the anger had not been directed at her at all . |
| 54 | Numerous criticisms have been directed at it from insides and outside feminism . |
| 55 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 56 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 57 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 58 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 59 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 60 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |