Example sentences of "[v-ing] at he [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 2 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 3 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 4 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 5 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 6 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 7 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 8 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 9 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 10 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 11 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 12 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 13 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 14 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 15 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 16 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 19 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 20 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 21 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 22 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 23 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 24 | But she snapped , ‘ I 'm not tired , I 'm not , ’ glaring at him like an enemy , and he felt a sour weariness at the prospect of the long , white night ahead of them . |
| 25 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
| 26 | Then , on March 13th , he was tackled by two planes at once , firing at him from a range of ten yards . |
| 27 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 28 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 29 | A big , broad-shouldered man pushed between us to shout to someone on the street , gesturing at him with a huge banana . |
| 30 | His grandmother was clutching his arm , smiling at him with an almost girlish pleasure . |