Example sentences of "at [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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1 | I , I just ask him if , and it , the question that I 'm interested in the answer to , like how did it go ? and , now he talks at me for an hour until Diane comes in and says enough Vaughany , cos she can see I sort of trying to edge away |
2 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
3 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
4 | She looked at me with an elegance of expression that is difficult to describe . |
5 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
6 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
7 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
8 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
9 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
10 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
11 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
12 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
13 | She was standing and smiling down at them from an upstairs window . |
14 | He looked at them like an auctioneer trying to improve a poor lot m a cattle market . |
15 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
16 | Then , with sound like a rippling machine gun , arms outstretched and a face-splitting smile , you speed spectacularly towards the audience , a different light flashing magically as your heels lightly clip each step.The effect is stunning , like somebody racing at you on an escalator only much , much better . |
17 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
18 | He has to look at everything from an international perspective . |
19 | I think that this is best explained , not by looking at lots of particular theories , but by looking at one as an example of how the basic problem — how cumulative selection got its start — might be solved . |
20 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
21 | Nick Stanton gazed at her with an uncustomary scowl . |
22 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
23 | The Doctor looked at her with an air of hesitant concern . |
24 | Natasha gazed at her with an expression in which caution and disdain were perfectly balanced . |
25 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
26 | He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face . |
27 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |
28 | He stood and looked at her with an expression of total innocence . |
29 | Guido took a mouthful of his drink and paused in what he was saying , looking up at her with an amused , curious glint in his eye . |
30 | The other girl looked at her with an expression of dismay . |