Example sentences of "as he [verb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN stabbed her husband in the back as he laughed at her , a court heard . |
| 2 | There was a harshness in his voice , echoed in the depths of his eyes as he glared at her . |
| 3 | He grinned as he came at her again . |
| 4 | Its drawers kept sliding open and shut as he heaved at it ; the juddering clatter joining with the other sounds of cacophony in the stairwell . |
| 5 | These intense areas automatically draw the eyes of the predator and as he stares at them he fails to notice the larger shape which carries them . |
| 6 | As he cut at them , the monster released a jet of black ink , withdrew and disappeared . |
| 7 | ‘ Please go , ’ Alexandra said , fielding the lion as he plunged at her , ‘ I 'll call for help if I need it . |
| 8 | ‘ As he looked at him , PC Kelly thought he was about to urinate . |
| 9 | As he looked at them walk away , something hard in him revolted and he cried inside himself . |
| 10 | His heavily lined mahogany coloured face was unsmiling as he looked at them . |
| 11 | He had a formidable reputation as a hard , cryptic , ruthless man whose god was perfection and whose greatest intolerance was for any weakness or sentiment which undermined it ; but there was something in his face as he looked at me which was very like kindness . |
| 12 | The judge was an old , kind man , but his face was very serious as he looked at me . |
| 13 | As he looked at her , his face closed over with a faintly embarrassed incredulity . |
| 14 | Joe was not smiling as he looked at her . |
| 15 | As he looked at her , preparing to bargain all over again , there was a splat ! of sparks from the light , a high-pitched sizzle , and then darkness . |
| 16 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 17 | ‘ How lovely she is , ’ he thought for the thousandth time , as he looked at her fondly . |
| 18 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
| 19 | You know — ’ He pulled in his chin as he looked at her before continuing , ‘ It 's odd , but none of the other girls I 've brought to the house over the years have seemed to arouse your animosity . |
| 20 | She held his gaze as he looked at her . |
| 21 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 22 | He laughed and kissed her again , and she could sense the relief in his words and in his eyes , as he looked at her with tenderness . |
| 23 | Yet his expression as he looked at her and the strength with which he seized her arm made her uncomfortably aware of their isolated position . |
| 24 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her , and seemed to glow with fury , their brown tint lightening almost to gold . |
| 25 | He smiled again , his eyes hooding as he looked at her . |
| 26 | His eyes narrowed as he looked at her . |
| 27 | Luke 's face changed as he looked at her . |
| 28 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 29 | There was respect in the older man 's eyes as he looked at her . |
| 30 | She could n't interpret the expression on his face as he looked at her . |