Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 2 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 3 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 4 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 5 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 6 | And there have been days I 'd have liked her at home when I had a headache or one of the nuns had roared at me at school . |
| 7 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 8 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 9 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 10 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 11 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 12 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 13 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 14 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 15 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 16 | But she had linked arms with Len because she was so glad that he was next to her , between her and that boy who had looked at her as if , well as if she was indecently dressed or something . |
| 17 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 18 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 19 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 20 | Twenty minutes later , she was still trying to forget the way he had looked at her before slamming the door behind him . |
| 21 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 22 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 23 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 24 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 25 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 26 | The person who had nearly strangled her had come at her from behind . |
| 27 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 28 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 29 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 30 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |