Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |
| 2 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 3 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 4 | He looked at me across the room . |
| 5 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 6 | Balvinder shook his head at me across the ring : ‘ This one very weakling bird , ’ he shouted . |
| 7 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 8 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 9 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 10 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 11 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 12 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 13 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 14 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 15 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 16 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 17 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 18 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 19 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 20 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 21 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 22 | I do n't want her shouting names at me over the fence . ’ |
| 23 | Malc reappeared round the door , looked at me over the top of his specs and reached out and I walked towards his outstretched arms on liquid legs . |
| 24 | Margaret smiled at me over the table as if she had read my mind and was too happy to be anything but amused by the fact . |
| 25 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 26 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 27 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 28 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 29 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 30 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |