Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 2 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 3 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 4 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 5 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 6 | I looked at myself in the rearview mirror . |
| 7 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 8 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
| 9 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
| 10 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 11 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 12 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 13 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 14 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 15 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 16 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 17 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 18 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 19 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 20 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 21 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 22 | She looked at herself in the mirror , knowing that she looked good . |
| 23 | She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled , thinking that only the birds could see her . |
| 24 | She looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 25 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 26 | They looked at themselves in the Hall of a Million Mirrors . |
| 27 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 28 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 29 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 30 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |