Example sentences of "looking at [pers pn] [prep] a " 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 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 5 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 6 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 9 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 10 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 11 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 12 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 13 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 16 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 17 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 18 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 19 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 20 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 21 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 23 | and she said I do n't like to tell time , she kept going , looking at me with a ca n't believe how stupid you are |
| 24 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 25 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 26 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 27 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 28 | He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way . |
| 29 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 30 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |