Example sentences of "i [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 2 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
| 3 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
| 4 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 5 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
| 6 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 7 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 8 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 9 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 10 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 11 | I look at him with about the dirtiest look I can muster . |
| 12 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 13 | I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal . |
| 14 | ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’ |
| 15 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
| 16 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
| 17 | It 's good , but I look at it like … did you see the movie ‘ Road Warrior ’ ? ' |
| 18 | I stare at it in hatred . |
| 19 | I talked at him as if he could easily be normal . |
| 20 | I stared at him in horror . |
| 21 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 22 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 23 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 24 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 25 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 26 | Both Coconut and I looked at him in astonishment . |
| 27 | I looked at him in surprise , but he ignored me . |
| 28 | Helen Stoner and I looked at him in surprise . |
| 29 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 30 | I looked at him in surprise . |