Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 3 | Silas barked at her in a fury . |
| 4 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 5 | Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry . |
| 6 | They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles . |
| 7 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 8 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 9 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 10 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 11 | We worked at it in a positive and determined manner . |
| 12 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 13 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 14 | He stared at her in a very strange , intense way . |
| 15 | Now he stared at her in a mixture of surprise , guilt , appreciation and gladness . |
| 16 | The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence . |
| 17 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 18 | She stared at me in a kind of shocked silence and then gradually withdrew into the shadows of her front hall , closing the door in front of her . |
| 19 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 20 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 21 | He looked at her in a kind of numb horror . |
| 22 | Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush . |
| 23 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
| 24 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 25 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 26 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 27 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 28 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 29 | She looked at him in a queer , incisive way he did not like at all . |
| 30 | He spent a short time in conversation with Iris , who looked at him in a way that made Melissa want to shake her . |