Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 5 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 6 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 7 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 8 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 14 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 15 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |
| 19 | No one moved , they were staring at him in astonishment . |
| 20 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 21 | Patrick was gazing at her in admiration . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 24 | oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 28 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 29 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 30 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |