Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob sat up on the bed and gazed at her in astonishment . |
| 2 | She opened her eyes and gazed at him in disbelief . |
| 3 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 4 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 5 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 6 | Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket , pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement . |
| 7 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 8 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |
| 9 | We will take each of the main triggering events and look at them in more detail . |
| 10 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 11 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 12 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 13 | Cornelius snatched the newspaper and gawped at it in disbelief . |
| 14 | They were sitting and staring at him in complete absorption . |
| 15 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 17 | Jenna turned and looked at him in a startled manner . |
| 18 | They all turned and looked at me in disgust when I was the first to be called by Estella . |
| 19 | The clinic woman hoisted her into the air and looked at her in distaste . |
| 20 | He extracted a beautiful leather wallet from his pocket and looked at her in challenge . |
| 21 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 22 | Stok opened a brown dossier and looked at it in silence , then closed it again . |
| 23 | She lost control finally and screamed at him in panic . |
| 24 | When he saw his wife 's face , he was so shocked that he stopped speaking and stared at her in horror . |
| 25 | ‘ Not everybody , ’ Fireman Robb put down his glass and stared at him in silence . |
| 26 | Meredith stopped short and stared at him in disbelief . |
| 27 | I sat bolt upright and stared at him in amazement . |
| 28 | Maggie shot to her feet and stared at him in astonishment , and at that moment Felipe de Santis walked past the room , his dark eyes taking everything at one swift glance — Mitch obviously just leaving , Maggie 's suddenly flushed face and wide eyes and the slightly rumpled bed where she had rested to talk to Mitch . |
| 29 | Virginia recalled her prim lectures in St Lucia , and stared at him in stunned disbelief . |
| 30 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |