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 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 10 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 11 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 12 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 13 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 18 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then , on March 13th , he was tackled by two planes at once , firing at him from a range of ten yards . |
| 21 | A big , broad-shouldered man pushed between us to shout to someone on the street , gesturing at him with a huge banana . |
| 22 | His life would be a charade , for every time he took her in his arms he would see the face of the girl now smiling at him in a way which lit fires in his heart . |
| 23 | She had the face of a cat or a witch , but although she was smiling at him in a queerly macabre way , she looked exhausted and forlorn . |