Example sentences of "at [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
2 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
3 | ‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press . |
4 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
5 | Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’ |
6 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
7 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
8 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
9 | Nor do I feel like setting myself up as an Aunt Sally just waiting for all those girls to throw themselves at me in the attempt to knock me off my perch ! ’ |
10 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
11 | at them in the kitchen over the sink , |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
14 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
15 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
16 | He walked to the phone , pausing on the way to take another admiring look at himself in the mirror . |
17 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
18 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
19 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
20 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
21 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
22 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
23 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
24 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
25 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
26 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
27 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
28 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
29 | Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas |
30 | ‘ I 've never seen so many motorbikes at once before , ’ Maria confessed , staring disbelievingly at one in the lane alongside , two small children wedged between youthful-looking adults . |