Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE shepherd stared at us in disbelief . |
| 2 | The Corporal looked at me in amazement . |
| 3 | Oliver was told that Monks was his half-brother , and the boy stared at him in shock and amazement . |
| 4 | The girl looked at him in wonder . |
| 5 | Angel looked at her in wonder . |
| 6 | The old lady looked at me in wonder and said , ‘ Nobody has ever asked me that before , but if you really would not be too cross I would rather you did not . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail . |
| 8 | Gerald Hussey saw his wife looking at him in triumph and felt his heart sink . |
| 9 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 10 | The King looked at him in surprise . |
| 11 | had a lot of stuff thrown at you in one go . |
| 12 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 13 | The aunt looked at him in angry surprise . |
| 14 | Her father looked at her in open admiration . |
| 15 | The Inspector and the Colonel stared at her in surprise . |
| 16 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 17 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 18 | The old farmer looked at me in surprise , then glanced around as though he had just noticed the weather . |
| 19 | The man looked at me in my petrified state . |
| 20 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |
| 21 | The doctor pointed at them in turn . |
| 22 | A woman with candyfloss hair glared at them in open-mouthed amazement , for their voices had risen little by little . |
| 23 | The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence . |
| 24 | Er , and you can spend some time looking at it in your own time , I E , going at your own pace , over the problems . |
| 25 | He paused as his mother stared at him in bewilderment . |
| 26 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 27 | At 4.30 am the Corporal of the day , a squat pig-like Polynesian called Vigno , came round the rooms , turning on the lights , throwing open the windows and tipping people out of bed , at the same time screaming at us in French to get downstairs on to the parade ground for ‘ appel ’ or roll call . |