Example sentences of "[adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
| 3 | In contrast , the D-32 's tighter , more introverted qualities mean that you can thrash away at it with complete abandon and still get a smooth , rich , controlled and , it has to be said , very Martin-esque result . |
| 4 | The douce denizens of Edinburgh looked up in sudden amazement as a Heinkel thundered low across the rooftops beloved of Baillie Nicol Jarvie and disappeared beyond the hills , a spitfire hanging grimly on to its smoking trail and blazing away at it with all four guns . |
| 5 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 6 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 7 | Lamb arrived , and before he had scored Patel dropped a hard slash straight at him at comfortable height . |
| 8 | Maria looked straight at him with hard eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't look straight at him like that , ’ Nick said . |
| 10 | After a moment , he lifted his dark head and looked straight at her with hard , narrowed eyes . |
| 11 | The secret for any cat-phobic individuals who want to keep their distance is to lean towards a cat , stare fixedly at it with wide-open eyes and make agitated hand movements , asking the cat in strident tones to come and sit on their laps . |
| 12 | Rory gazed helplessly at him through haunted , agonised eyes . |
| 13 | She stared confusedly at him for several seconds , then lowered her head , gazing into the glass she was holding . |
| 14 | He had a lot of peculiar habits , one of them being to stare hard at you with steely eyes . |
| 15 | From time to time Cathy Carne looked across at him with obvious unease . |
| 16 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 17 | He glanced across at her with faint amusement . |
| 18 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 19 | So Julie smiled at us , in a half-proud , half-scared sort of way , that made her look more as if she was going to burst into tears , and marched up the street , pigtails bobbing , and over the main road to the bus-stop , and stood there gazing across at us with blank eyes while the traffic trundled backwards and forwards between us . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |