Example sentences of "[was/were] looking at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 3 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 4 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 5 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 6 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 7 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 8 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 9 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 10 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 11 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 12 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 13 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 14 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 15 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 16 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 17 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 18 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |
| 19 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 20 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 21 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 22 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 23 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 24 | Quigley was looking at me in open horror now . |
| 25 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 26 | He was looking at me from under his dark brows , his voice low . |
| 27 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 28 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 29 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 30 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |