Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 2 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 3 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 4 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |
| 5 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 6 | An ’ why 're you lookin' at me like that ? |
| 7 | What you all lookin' at me like that for ? ’ |
| 8 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 9 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 12 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 13 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 14 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 15 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 16 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 17 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 18 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 19 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 20 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 21 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 22 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 23 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 24 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 25 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 26 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 27 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 28 | What are you looking at him like that for ? |
| 29 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 30 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |