Example sentences of "[pron] as [pers pn] [verb] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I see ( and Summerchild sees ) the young provincial historian becoming even more silent and preoccupied than Summerchild himself as they look at the worn carpets and unoccupied chairs . |
| 2 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 3 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 4 | Shock flooded her as she stared at the tall , dark-haired , dark-eyed man , who seemed in those initial moments not to be believing his eyes either . |
| 5 | She watched him as he queued at the counter . |
| 6 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 7 | The raw , rough feeling in his voice was so obvious that Julia forgot all her determined restraint of the previous evening and put her arms around him as he sat at the table , laying her head on his . |
| 8 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 9 | And then he was pushed roughly on , and suddenly , inexplicably my mind was filled with a vivid picture of Christ looking down at me as I stood at the foot of the cross . |
| 10 | It 's the resting place of 4 of the 5 youngsters who died when a speeding car went out of control in Akers Way and hit them as they played at the side of the road . |
| 11 | Felipe was out of the water and waiting for them as they arrived at the place where the lake quietly lapped the path . |
| 12 | There are three further surprises for us as we look at the Old Testament teaching about the Spirit of God . |