Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 2 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 3 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 4 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 5 | I do n't think I could handle somebody living with me like that . |
| 6 | Extremely harmful it had been , meddling with him like that . |
| 7 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 8 | An ’ why 're you lookin' at me like that ? |
| 9 | What you all lookin' at me like that for ? ’ |
| 10 | What are you looking at him like that for ? |
| 11 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 12 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 13 | She could still hear her mother 's voice saying , ‘ Do n't sit looking at me like that , child ; say something . ’ |
| 14 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 15 | ‘ That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now , ’ he said , ‘ and for your wickedness in hiding , and for looking at me like that , you rat ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression . |
| 17 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 18 | Why was she looking at me like that ? |
| 19 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Leonora . |
| 20 | Impulsively she asked , ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ and immediately regretted having spoken her thoughts aloud . |
| 21 | Why are you looking at me like that ? |
| 22 | It 's no good coming over and looking at me like that Rick . |
| 23 | Stop looking at me like that . |
| 24 | Well I ca n't get asthma when he 's looking at me like that . |
| 25 | With Luke looking at her like that , a combination of desire and disgust hardening his features and his mouth somehow more richly sensual than it had looked before , Maria had no difficulty believing him . |
| 26 | She even had reservations about his admitted feelings about her — at least if he went on looking at her like that . |
| 27 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 28 | Why was Louise looking at her like that ? |
| 29 | And all the while , her son Richard was there to remind her … sleeping , waking , looking at her in that special way that was Tyler 's . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |