Example sentences of "at [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me darkly again and sat down . |
| 2 | I just thought … when you smiled at me just then that … ’ |
| 3 | He looked at me really carefully and deliberately . |
| 4 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 5 | The Elms looked at them rather disapprovingly and then turned back to Tealtaoich . |
| 6 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 7 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 8 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 9 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 10 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |
| 11 | At the shop door they all stood around her , and she looked at them solemnly now and said , ‘ Thank you so much . |
| 12 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 13 | Each time she heard her name the girl stared at them more anxiously than ever , as if she wanted to speak , to excuse herself , but was too exhausted . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 15 | That the Corporation do maintain a good and efficient School , whereof a Free School , at which not less than 30 boys are to be educated , shall form apart . |
| 16 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh my ! ’ said Bob , looking at her more seriously than his voice would have suggested , ‘ you have changed your tune . |
| 18 | But before she did that she would have to become famous at something else so that it would be extra sad when she renounced the world and went to work in a leper colony . |
| 19 | The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter . |
| 20 | He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar . |
| 21 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 22 | She established herself firmly in her parents ' house once again , with the addition of her daughter , and decided that , as she did not appear at her very best when moving due to her injury , she would remain on a sofa all the time . |
| 23 | He was looking at her so intently that she closed her eyes again . |
| 24 | He was staring at her so intently that she wanted to cry out . |
| 25 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 26 | He was looking down at her so fondly and with such deep understanding that she was encouraged to go on . |
| 27 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 28 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
| 29 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
| 30 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |