Example sentences of "at [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | " Coming out to play ? " he said , smiling up at her in the sunlight . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'll get our family doctor to take a look at her in the morning . |
| 33 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 34 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 35 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 36 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 37 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 38 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 39 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 40 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 41 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 42 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 43 | Thereafter she welcomed Paul 's embraces , thrusting herself at him in the way she had ended by doing on their first night . |
| 44 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 45 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 46 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 47 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 48 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 49 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 50 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 51 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 52 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 53 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 54 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 55 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 56 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 57 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 58 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 59 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 60 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |