Example sentences of "be [verb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |
| 2 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 3 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 4 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 5 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 6 | Sculptures and dolls and statues and bells and odd buildings , and sometimes Hosanna 's there and it 's nearly all right but these things are laughing at me , never with me . |
| 7 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 8 | After all the incivilities he 'd been hurling at her , he deserved to be put in his place a little ! |
| 9 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 10 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 11 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 12 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been looking at me , your eldest son , Karim . |
| 15 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 16 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 17 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 18 | I have been looking at it . |
| 19 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 20 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 21 | How ridiculous to think that these plays had been thrust at me when I was ten ! |
| 22 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 23 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 24 | ‘ You are looking at me , Joe ? ’ she said . |
| 25 | I mean some people are looking at me as though I 've just revealed some dread secret |
| 26 | ‘ Do you know how you are looking at me ? ’ he asked fiercely , but as she only shook her head he tilted her face and searched frustratedly for her mouth , crushing her against him . |
| 27 | ‘ She is blushing , ’ continued Tess bravely , ‘ because you are looking at her . ’ |
| 28 | So that you are actually creating the drama for the people that are looking at you . |
| 29 | We become aware that people are looking at us . |
| 30 | And we do n't like it when people are looking at us … |