Example sentences of "at [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The koko serves us tea respectfully , although she smiles at me complicitly as she hands me my mug . |
| 2 | She was n't changing her plans and returning , yet she seemed to be angrily tugging at me just as I was turning away . |
| 3 | He chuckled and looked at me assessingly as I stood in his doorway . |
| 4 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 5 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 6 | blinked at me blearily as I told him we had better ring the hospital . |
| 7 | He stared at me blankly as I held him forward until the spasm passed . |
| 8 | Des stares at me blankly as he puts his shoe on . |
| 9 | I hope that the Secretary of State will look again at the figures , instead of looking at them superficially as he has done , to see that , in the past five years , the incidence of passenger train collisions has increased by 40 per cent . |
| 10 | Some of the services which are being provided , if you look at them critically as we are doing now , are not of as good quality as one would hope . |
| 11 | A woman with a dog stared at them curiously as she passed . |
| 12 | I 'll fetch one of the ambulance lads to take a look at you soon as we get this bloke out . ’ |
| 13 | He stares at you hard as he passes . |
| 14 | My wife was of no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes . |
| 15 | The man looked at her curiously as he passed , touched his cap and muttered a curt good evening , which she acknowledged equally briefly . |
| 16 | The last thing she saw was the audience of men gazing at her curiously as her body was handled like a lump of meat . |
| 17 | But he could only glance at her briefly as he complimented her . |
| 18 | He glanced at her briefly as he said , ‘ I have n't checked the answering machine . |
| 19 | For Naylor Massingham looked far from amused , and was in fact glowering at her darkly as he rapped toughly , ‘ The purpose of my wanting to see you , Miss Everett , was to give you verbal warning that unless your work improves you 're out ! ’ |
| 20 | The clerk looked at her oddly as she took her purse out of her school satchel and carefully counted out the exact money . |
| 21 | ‘ Es verdad , ’ he agreed , turning at the door to look at her wryly as her eyes closed . |
| 22 | The man looked at her carefully as she nodded . |
| 23 | He smiled at her now as he said , ‘ Yes , you 're right , I do love it . ’ |
| 24 | Amabel smiled at her now as she sat by Gemma 's bedside tranquilly embroidering a cambric handkerchief , patient and beautiful as an angel and so terribly wronged . |
| 25 | He looked at her questioningly as she hesitated . |
| 26 | It amused him even more and he looked down at her quizzically as she wrenched her arm from his grasp . |
| 27 | He glanced at her quickly as he opened his car door . |
| 28 | A low rumble of thunder made her skin break out in a fine rash of goosepimples , and Julius glanced at her sharply as he noticed them . |
| 29 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 30 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |