Example sentences of "looking at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 3 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 4 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 5 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 6 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 7 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 8 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 9 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 10 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 11 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 12 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 13 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 14 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 15 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 16 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 17 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 18 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 19 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 20 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 21 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 22 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 23 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 24 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 25 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 26 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 27 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 28 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 29 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |