Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 2 | ‘ But must he look at me as if I am the murderer ? ’ |
| 3 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 5 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 6 | Andrew had been annoyed by his fall and on the court he went at it as if trying to prove something , beating Peter easily . |
| 7 | He looked at me as if he could not believe his eyes , and a faint , doubtful smile began to move his lips . |
| 8 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 9 | He looked at me as if I were sure of what this was . |
| 10 | He looked at me as if the answer was obvious . |
| 11 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 12 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 13 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 14 | He looked at her as if challenging her to argue with him and Alyssia had the drowning feeling of someone whose control had been very efficiently whipped out of her grasp . |
| 15 | He looked at her as if she were an idiot . |
| 16 | He looked at you as if to say Jees ! |
| 17 | He stared at her as if she already knew and was simply being obstructive . |
| 18 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 19 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 21 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |