Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog curled a lip at me but made no sound , then took up position in the front room doorway . |
| 2 | ‘ Not my house , ’ he said , not looking at me but straining to see round the bathroom door . |
| 3 | He glanced at me but carried on splashing water into the sink and clattering plates . |
| 4 | The copper stares at me and speaks into his static machine , spouting some code number and a location . |
| 5 | The contents were simple ; so simple that the letter seemed to look up at me and to say , ‘ I am in code , you know . |
| 6 | Like the first letter from Mrs Girdlestone it was short and simple , and like that letter ( but now the feeling was stronger ) it seemed to look up at me and to say , ‘ I am in code , you know . |
| 7 | He peered down at me and scratched his head as he replaced his cap on his bald head . |
| 8 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 9 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |
| 10 | The pathetic , skinny dog was scratching around the dustbin searching for the slightest bit of food , until she took one look at me and shot off with her tail between her legs . |
| 11 | She was shouting at me and shouting at her own helplessness . |
| 12 | There 's work to be done in the world — so much to be found out — ’ He checked himself abruptly , lifted his glass at me and took a sip from it . |
| 13 | He had looked at me and seen her . |
| 14 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 15 | The second thing productive I do n't think it 's productive for people to interrupt start shouting at me and chairing at me or shout shout at the platform cos I think all that 's gon na happen there is the meetings gon na disintegrate and nothing will be as right . |
| 16 | I 've met so many people who 've come up and been introduced and just looked at me and gone , ‘ No , that 's the wrong guy … |
| 17 | He looked up at me and grinned , ‘ Hell of a mess ’ , he said , ‘ but we 'll get them sorted out . |
| 18 | Cal looked at me and grinned . |
| 19 | He looked at me and grinned and shook his head . |
| 20 | He looked up at me and grinned quickly before hunching over the controls again . |
| 21 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 22 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 23 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 24 | Pointing between her legs , she looked at me and asked , ‘ Tu veux ? ’ |
| 25 | He peered closer at me and asked what an Englishman was doing in Paris . |
| 26 | He looked at me and seemed to hesitate a minute . |
| 27 | For the rest of the night , I could see him pointing at me and telling all the other guests what I had said to him . |
| 28 | They were staring at me and kept staring . |
| 29 | Would you guys like to look at me and ask a answer a question . |
| 30 | Wu looked at me and gestured to his own right eye and giggled . |