Example sentences of "at [pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put out her tongue at me and went to the kitchen . |
| 2 | People smiled at me and sang in the streets . |
| 3 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 4 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 5 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 6 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 7 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
| 8 | Maybe it 's partly due to that air of arrogant hauteur you have , but I find it quite unbearably exciting to look at you and know of the passion that 's lurking underneath . |
| 9 | He stared at her while drawing in a deep breath , which expanded his broad chest further ; then he said , ‘ Well , if you want to know , you should n't look as you do ; you attract the wrong kind . |
| 10 | Well , she 'd lost her bonus now , she observed ruefully to herself as the tall dark stranger turned once more to look at her and remarked in a scathing tone of voice , ‘ I would say that , considering the state your car 's in , about the only thing it 's good for is to be used as a battering-ram . ’ |
| 11 | She never knew how often Lachlan looked at her and thought of a slenderer , more elegant figure . |
| 12 | The shop-woman smiled at her and asked after the bereaved family . |
| 13 | He looked at her and said in a hard voice , ‘ I do n't suppose you know what it 's like to feel simply damned useless . ’ |
| 14 | Jenna grinned at her and got into the car , looking around with pleasure as Marguerite reversed from the garage and turned to the track . |
| 15 | He looked closely at her and spoke in a slightly louder voice and more slowly . |
| 16 | Then he looked at her and smiled in a shamefaced way . |
| 17 | Bill Hamilton smiled across the room at her and pointed at a side table where drinks and appetising titbits were laid out . |
| 18 | Then he had a roll on the lawn before charging at her and coming to a full stop , big feet outsplayed , head down , ready to play . |
| 19 | His black eyes were sharp as he looked at her and thought for a moment . |
| 20 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 21 | Scott looked up at him and motioned towards the policeman . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry . |
| 23 | She stole an anxious look at him and withered from the frosty blast of his basilisk stare . |
| 24 | They took one look at him and scampered over the fence as quickly as rats over the timbers of a sinking ship . |
| 25 | Robyn looked at him and flirted with the idea of telling him where to get off . |
| 26 | She halted , hesitated , flicked a glance at him and saw from the surprised look on his face that he was putting his own interpretation on why she was scurrying to her room . |
| 27 | Carrie smiled at him and hurried down the stairs . |
| 28 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 29 | There hardly could be a harder act to follow than Gary Armstrong , universally rated the outstanding scrum-half in the world game , but Andrew Nicol of Dundee High School FP made an impressive stab at it when thrown to the English wolves at Murrayfield on January 18 . |
| 30 | Parker licked at it and stuck on a bit of brown paper . |