Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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1 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
2 | He coughed twice before saying , ‘ Yes ? ’ then leaned forward and peered at her as if his sight were bad , then coughed a harsh , chest-tearing cough before asking further , ‘ Yes , what d' you want ? ’ |
3 | The last time I had seen him , on the night of the fire , he had held my hands , told me I had saved his life , and looked at me as if he loved me . |
4 | Now well I 'm sitting there , Robert 's my customer and like I 'm sitting there and he comes out with this fabulous spiel , right , as this objection , right , that was word perfect and he 's sitting there after he 's finished it as smug as anything and looking at me as if to say so what are you gon na do about that then ? |
5 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
6 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
7 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
8 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
9 | And , and look at you as if you 're an old fogey if you say tuppence I expect . |
10 | He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something . |
11 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
12 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
13 | The man shrugged and looked at him as if he were mad . |
14 | In the morning , barely conscious , he turned to his wife " and looked at me as if to say " I 've done it " " . |
15 | Rosa laughed and looked at her as if she should know . |
16 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
17 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |