Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shocked into immobility , her heart racing with suffocating speed , she gaped at him stupidly as he added , ‘ Welcome to the Ca ’ del Leone . ’ |
| 2 | He glanced at her briefly as he said , ‘ I have n't checked the answering machine . |
| 3 | He glanced at her quickly as he opened his car door . |
| 4 | A low rumble of thunder made her skin break out in a fine rash of goosepimples , and Julius glanced at her sharply as he noticed them . |
| 5 | A woman with a dog stared at them curiously as she passed . |
| 6 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 7 | He just walked into her room , closed the door and came across to her , and Maggie stared at him wildly as he took her arm , drew her from the balcony and shut the french window , |
| 8 | Leonora stared at him blankly as he went into the kitchen , wondering what she 'd done to incur his displeasure again . |
| 9 | He stared at me blankly as I held him forward until the spasm passed . |
| 10 | blinked at me blearily as I told him we had better ring the hospital . |
| 11 | The clerk looked at her oddly as she took her purse out of her school satchel and carefully counted out the exact money . |
| 12 | The man looked at her carefully as she nodded . |
| 13 | The man looked at her curiously as he passed , touched his cap and muttered a curt good evening , which she acknowledged equally briefly . |
| 14 | He looked at her questioningly as she hesitated . |
| 15 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 16 | She looked at him again as he executed a slower turn , wobbling but upright . |
| 17 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
| 18 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 19 | Doreen looked at him pleadingly as she persisted , ‘ I thought it would be so nice for — for married couples — ’ |
| 20 | She leaned back against the wall and looked at him tauntingly as his head rose sharply at her tone and his eyes fastened on her . |
| 21 | Francis Morgan looked at him wildly as Teversham came up at his elbow , solid as a rock . |
| 22 | He chuckled and looked at me assessingly as I stood in his doorway . |
| 23 | Even Dad looked at us proudly as he paused in his job of putting up the bunting . |
| 24 | He smiled at her now as he said , ‘ Yes , you 're right , I do love it . ’ |
| 25 | Amabel smiled at her now as she sat by Gemma 's bedside tranquilly embroidering a cambric handkerchief , patient and beautiful as an angel and so terribly wronged . |
| 26 | Dysart smiled at him sympathetically as he hurled a bundle of damp tissues into the bin by the bed and plucked a handful of replacements from their box . |