Example sentences of "at [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press . |
| 2 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 3 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 4 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 5 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 6 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
| 7 | Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’ |
| 8 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 9 | Nor do I feel like setting myself up as an Aunt Sally just waiting for all those girls to throw themselves at me in the attempt to knock me off my perch ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 11 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 12 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 13 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 14 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 15 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 16 | at them in the kitchen over the sink , |
| 17 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 18 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 19 | He walked to the phone , pausing on the way to take another admiring look at himself in the mirror . |
| 20 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 21 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 22 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 23 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 24 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 25 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 26 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 27 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
| 28 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 29 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 30 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |