Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 2 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 3 | Back in August we joined forces with Cossack and asked you to look at your fella and tell us if the man of your dreams had turned into the man of your nightmares ! |
| 4 | There was a tone in his voice that Breeze had never heard before — a tone that startled her , and made her look at him with wide , bewildered eyes . |
| 5 | When she turned her head away he captured her face between strong hands and made her look at him . |
| 6 | Bending down , he stared into her face , his long fingers strangely gentle as he cupped her cheek and made her look at him . |
| 7 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 8 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 9 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 10 | I took his shoulders and made him look at me . |
| 11 | He held the mutilated carving close before Harry 's face and made him look at it . |
| 12 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 13 | He suddenly looked up and caught her looking at him . |
| 14 | He turned and caught her looking at him as they strolled idly along by the whispering dark Mediterranean , and impulsively he stopped and pulled her into his arms for a quick hard hug . |
| 15 | He looked up suddenly , and caught her staring at him . |
| 16 | He looked up and caught her staring at him . |
| 17 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 18 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 19 | He waited thirty seconds before glancing sideways again , and found her dabbing at her face , trying hard not to sniff . |
| 20 | Gulping down a breath , she lifted her lids — and found him looking at her . |
| 21 | She 's got some and told her to stay at home . |
| 22 | Ruth poured cornflakes and milk , and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee . |
| 23 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 24 | In his book , Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , published in 1724 , the English author Daniel Defoe wrote of having seen the horn and heard it sounded at Coilsfield House ( later rebuilt and named Montgomerie House ) to call the servants to their duties . |
| 25 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 26 | By and by , Mrs M. stopped the car in a lonely place , and urged me to look at St Patrick 's Well . |
| 27 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 28 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 29 | I went up to him , and saw him staring at something behind me . |
| 30 | She reached over by the man 's shoulder to set a styrene cup on his desk , and saw him look at it sharply . |