Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 3 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Unless Flixe needs me , ’ he said , looking at his wife with a mixture of protectiveness and adoration that made Julia think back to her own honeymoon and wonder whether Anthony had ever looked at her like that . |
| 6 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 7 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
| 8 | Nobody has ever looked at me like that . |
| 9 | Looked at me like that . |
| 10 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 11 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 12 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 13 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 14 | I 've looked at it on both sides , from different angles and colour is something to do with it . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 16 | He had not really looked at it like that before . |
| 17 | ‘ I had n't looked at it like that . |
| 18 | Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah |
| 19 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 20 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 21 | He 'd never smiled at her like that . |
| 22 | The thing which had been imprisoned in the corridor walls and which had gibbered and clutched at them with insane and monstrous hunger . |
| 23 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 24 | Part of his speed-of-reflex training as a kung-fu master had been to evade , or divert with forearm blocks , spears flung at him by other trainees in the martial arts school . |
| 25 | The fingers tightened and every word he spoke was slow , deliberate and flung at her with malevolent force through his clenched teeth . |
| 26 | It is meant primarily to give a final reminder that English spoken at something like full conversational speed is very different from the slow , careful pronunciation of the early Tape Units . |
| 27 | As we have already mentioned , the lift was orientated at something like 50 degrees to the line of the natural slope of the ground . |
| 28 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |
| 29 | This was carried out in two centres on an outpatient basis using local anaesthesia and intravenous sedation where indicated at one to four weekly intervals until obliteration of all varices had been achieved . |
| 30 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |