Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 2 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 3 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 4 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 5 | He had shaken his bunch of keys at me with great seriousness . |
| 6 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 7 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 8 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 9 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 10 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 11 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 12 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never known such a miserable bride , ’ she went on , standing back and looking at me with some affection , but more disapproval . |
| 14 | He looked at me with some care . |
| 15 | After taking my blood pressure and temperature , they took turns to poke , prod and press , then stood gazing down at me with puzzled wonder . |
| 16 | Mark looked at me with wild surmise and then spoke in capitals : ‘ THE NORTH SHORE IS TWELVE VIOLENT MILES OF SURF . |
| 17 | The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding . |
| 18 | She kept her eyes lowered to make sure that she did not look at me at this moment , at my own quite irrelevant scars . |
| 19 | I played it to my mother and she stared at me in total disbelief . |
| 20 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |
| 21 | He stared at me in great surprise . |
| 22 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 23 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 24 | She looked up at me in silent supplication . |
| 25 | Goreng looked at me in some surprise . |
| 26 | Quigley was looking at me in open horror now . |
| 27 | He sent her a glare that was full of suspicion , then demanded abruptly , ‘ You would n't be laughing at me by any chance ? |
| 28 | Do n't look at me like that wait wait . |
| 29 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 30 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |