Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 4 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 7 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 8 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 9 | Then , with sound like a rippling machine gun , arms outstretched and a face-splitting smile , you speed spectacularly towards the audience , a different light flashing magically as your heels lightly clip each step.The effect is stunning , like somebody racing at you on an escalator only much , much better . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 12 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 13 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 14 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 15 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She began babbling at him in an attempt to diffuse his anger . |
| 20 | His grandmother was clutching his arm , smiling at him with an almost girlish pleasure . |
| 21 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |