Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 2 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 3 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 4 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 5 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 6 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 7 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 8 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 9 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 10 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 11 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 12 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 13 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 14 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 15 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
| 16 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 17 | Gazing at her in the hall was the stuffed body of Grandpa 's black clumber spaniel , Pickwick . |
| 18 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 19 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 20 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 21 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |