Example sentences of "at [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 18 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 19 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 20 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 21 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 22 | Gazing at her in the hall was the stuffed body of Grandpa 's black clumber spaniel , Pickwick . |
| 23 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 24 | " Coming out to play ? " he said , smiling up at her in the sunlight . |
| 25 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 26 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll get our family doctor to take a look at her in the morning . |
| 28 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 29 | ‘ You could n't have mentioned this when I took a shot at him in the alleyway . ’ |
| 30 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |