Example sentences of "at [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He just looked at me and said something like , ‘ How 's my friend Mr Hattersley , then ? ’ sort of thing . |
| 4 | I 've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it 's a woman doing the interviewing ; I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons . |
| 5 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 6 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
| 7 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 8 | I like to look at them and show them to my guests . |
| 9 | If pleasant thoughts and memories come into your mind , look at them and enjoy them before returning to your chosen image . |
| 10 | Scouts assistant county commissioner Dave Jackson said : ‘ They were in full uniform and the old man started shouting Hitler Youth at them and hitting them with a stick . |
| 11 | He clutched at her and wound himself round her like an octopus , or like ivy , his cold feet in her stomach . |
| 12 | Her lungs were racked with fever and the doctor took one look at her and sent her to the isolation hospital . |
| 13 | She was nearly home and someone jumped out at her and battered her with a piece of wood . |
| 14 | Needlessly Herr Nordern cleared his throat again , frowning at Paul who was goggling at him while stuffing himself with cheese and cold ham . |
| 15 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 16 | Dad was told how naughty James had been and then shouted at him and sent him to the bedroom . |
| 17 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |
| 18 | Anna was so frightened she grew furiously angry with Peter and screamed at him and accused him of putting God before herself and the children . |
| 19 | Malik practically ran at him and grabbed him by the lapels . |
| 20 | ‘ Does yer mother know yer out ? ’ shouted one of the lads and then all at once they charged at him and manhandled him to the ground . |
| 21 | One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar . |
| 22 | He had told Fahfakhs that the young man wanted to marry Claudia , and perhaps he thought that the district officer was laughing at him and treating him with contempt . |
| 23 | She looked at him and loved him with a mixture of passion and almost maternal tenderness . |
| 24 | ‘ Should I really ? ’ she said , looking at the wine glass doubtfully , speaking as much to dispel the strange feeling that was coming over her every time she looked at him as to reassure herself over the wine . |
| 25 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 26 | Magee took one , glanced at it and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 27 | She could not glare at it or protect herself by clutching at the chair 's arms . |
| 28 | In developing an image , you and your workers , professional or voluntary , have to swallow your pride , smile at yourselves and put yourselves in second place to getting the message across — not easy , not often said , but true ! |
| 29 | It was coming straight back at us and putting us under extra pressure . |