Example sentences of "at [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 2 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 3 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 4 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 5 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 6 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 7 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 8 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 9 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 10 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 11 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 12 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 13 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 14 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 15 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 16 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |
| 17 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 18 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 19 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 20 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |
| 21 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 22 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 23 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 24 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 25 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 26 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 27 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
| 28 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 29 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |