Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the table her younger son , Joseph , saw her cheeks burn , and she looked up to find him gazing at her in mystification . |
| 2 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 3 | To feel him touching her , to see him looking at her with his heart washed clean of all the old hatred . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 5 | My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ . |
| 6 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 7 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 8 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 9 | He stabbed at it with his talons and beak . |
| 10 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 11 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 12 | He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force . |
| 13 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 14 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 15 | He gazed at her without speaking for what must have been at least a minute . |
| 16 | He gazed at her without speaking , then started the car . |
| 17 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 18 | He gazed at her in silence for several seconds , then replied with icy simplicity , ‘ No time . |
| 19 | He gazed at her in silence , then he said , ‘ Well , in a way , it is professional . |
| 20 | He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket . |
| 21 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |
| 22 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |
| 23 | He looks at her in fear : ‘ the cleft was like a dumb , stupid mouth . ’ |
| 24 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 25 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 26 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 27 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 28 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 29 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 30 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |