Example sentences of "not [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
2 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
3 | He was not looking at me at all . |
4 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
5 | Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear . |
6 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
7 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
8 | It was three days now since the wedding and yet he could not look at her without thinking that . |
9 | St John glanced quickly at her , but dared not look at her for long . |
10 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
11 | She kept her eyes lowered to make sure that she did not look at me at this moment , at my own quite irrelevant scars . |
12 | So do not look at me in that accusing way , little sister ! ’ |
13 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
14 | Such contact had for her possessed beauty , and he had shaken hands with her upon it ; he had not yelled at her for what she had not given . |
15 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
16 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
17 | I appreciate that one must approach the matter with considerable caution , and that we can not go at it in a bull-at-a-gate fashion . |
18 | Of course , Freud , to whom we owe this discovery , did not arrive at it by way of evolutionary theory ; on the contrary , he reached his conclusions by direct observation of adults and children and by a study of the psychology of human sexuality . |
19 | Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it . |
20 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
21 | ‘ I had n't looked at it like that . |
22 | ‘ Do n't glare at me like that ! |
23 | ‘ Do n't snap at me like that , you saucy devil , ’ said the doctor , immensely pleased with himself . |
24 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
25 | I do n't see why Mr. Morris should n't stick at it for a week or two . ’ |
26 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
27 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
28 | I did n't look at her at all , just watched the two loafers . |
29 | After that , he did n't look at her at all . |
30 | She wished he would n't look at her like that . |