Example sentences of "was [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 2 | Patrick was gazing at her in admiration . |
| 3 | The Collector had pulled a grey handkerchief from his pocket to mop his brow and was gazing at it with pleasure , thinking again that he was a simple man at heart . |
| 4 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 5 | oh she was shouting at him at dinner time Steven oh god dinner time she was shouting him |
| 6 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 7 | And as she stared , there was interposed on the fair skin face of a man , a thin man , and he was leering at her as if in triumph , as he would do if he were to get hold of this unusual-looking child , for he 'd make a pretty penny out of her , no matter what channel he sent her along , his nursery , the street , or the boat . |
| 8 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 9 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 10 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 11 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 12 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 13 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |
| 14 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 15 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 16 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 17 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 18 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 19 | Quigley was looking at me in open horror now . |
| 20 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 21 | He was looking at me from under his dark brows , his voice low . |
| 22 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 23 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 24 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 25 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 26 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 27 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 28 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 29 | He was looking at her as if he was wondering , will she be all right ? |
| 30 | ‘ He does n't , eh ? ’ said the tramp , who was looking at her with great interest . |