Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 4 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 5 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 6 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 7 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 8 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 9 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 10 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 11 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 12 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 13 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 14 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 15 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 16 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 17 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 18 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 19 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 20 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 21 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |
| 22 | No one moved , they were staring at him in astonishment . |
| 23 | Abdominal scintigrams were obtained at one to four hours and 20 hours after injection of the labelled cells , to localise the site and extent of disease using an IGE 400 AT gamma camera with a STAR computer at the appropriate channel settings . |
| 24 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 25 | Patrick was gazing at her in admiration . |
| 26 | The Collector had pulled a grey handkerchief from his pocket to mop his brow and was gazing at it with pleasure , thinking again that he was a simple man at heart . |
| 27 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 28 | oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him |
| 29 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 30 | And as she stared , there was interposed on the fair skin face of a man , a thin man , and he was leering at her as if in triumph , as he would do if he were to get hold of this unusual-looking child , for he 'd make a pretty penny out of her , no matter what channel he sent her along , his nursery , the street , or the boat . |