Example sentences of "at [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put down the pot , stared at the floor for a few seconds and then looked up glowering , pointed his finger at me in a way that was frightening because it was so sudden . |
| 2 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 3 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 4 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 5 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 6 | ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’ |
| 7 | But in a book he 's written he 's had a real big pop at me in a sour way . |
| 8 | He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence . |
| 9 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 10 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 11 | Then she smiled at me in a brusque , dismissive manner and directed me to the railway station . |
| 12 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 13 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 14 | You look at me in a way that is familiar . |
| 15 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 16 | He half-levelled the rifle at me in a menacing way . |
| 17 | She stared at me in a kind of shocked silence and then gradually withdrew into the shadows of her front hall , closing the door in front of her . |
| 18 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 19 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 20 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 21 | ‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press . |
| 22 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 23 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 24 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 25 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 26 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
| 27 | Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |