Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 2 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 3 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 4 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 5 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 6 | Bob sat up on the bed and gazed at her in astonishment . |
| 7 | Mr Stokill removed my rope and gazed at me with commiseration . |
| 8 | A thing slid hugely over the crest of a nearby ridge , and gazed at me from several eyes . |
| 9 | She opened her eyes and gazed at him in disbelief . |
| 10 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 11 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 12 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 13 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 14 | The wino leaned and leered at her from behind the cover of the chip man 's mighty stomach . |
| 15 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 16 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 17 | ‘ More like a full metamorphosis , ’ he drawled , leaning back against the huge , craggy trunk of the tree and gazing at her with wicked eyes . |
| 18 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 19 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 20 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 21 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 22 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 23 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 24 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 25 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 26 | He coughed twice before saying , ‘ Yes ? ’ then leaned forward and peered at her as if his sight were bad , then coughed a harsh , chest-tearing cough before asking further , ‘ Yes , what d' you want ? ’ |
| 27 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 28 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 29 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 30 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |