Example sentences of "be [verb] at [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 2 | All round us was a crowd of misty dream-people — though I 'm in the crowd , too — milling and muttering , and they 're looking at me in my silken gown and murmuring to each other , ‘ Is n't it dreadful — Robina 's dead ! |
| 3 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 4 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 5 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 6 | Because they 're staring at me in front of me in my diary . |
| 7 | Yeah , they 're shooting at us in Mount Carmel . |
| 8 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 9 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 10 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 11 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 12 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 13 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |
| 14 | No one moved , they were staring at him in astonishment . |
| 15 | The first former 's stared at her in surprise , they knew she never mended any thing if she could help it . |
| 16 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 17 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 18 | Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people . |
| 19 | Patrick was gazing at her in admiration . |
| 20 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 21 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 22 | Quigley was looking at me in open horror now . |
| 23 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 24 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 25 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 26 | She played with her leather gloves , turning each finger inside-out then carefully back again , aware that he was looking at her in that old , familiar searching way that somehow held her spellbound , draining her will to push the door and get away . |
| 27 | She eased the sharpness from her voice , aware that Fred was looking at her in surprise . |
| 28 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 29 | She averted her gaze and saw that Giles was looking at her in concern . |
| 30 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |