Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] like that " in BNC.
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1 | No one looked at her like that ! |
2 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
3 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
4 | Sometimes , when she looked at her like that , it seemed to Emmie that she could easily forget what Gran was like when she was well — how she had looked , sitting in the kitchen all last winter , rocking in her old chair and telling them stories and teaching Oliver games to play with her darning eggs . |
5 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
6 | And she says Jean you know well you can see er she says you know the day before Ros was in Lisburn and she says you know the way when you 're standing and from the back you can feel somebody that their eyes are penetrating through you and she said she happened to turn round and there she 's sitting in , in this girl 's car and just er looked at her like that . |
7 | Nothing compared to what her heart did when she looked at him like that . |
8 | And she looked at me like that . |
9 | But when she smiled at me like that , I thought she was the most beautiful woman in England . |