Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 2 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 3 | She looked at me and I thought I saw something stirring in her watery blue eyes but it was just a random current fizzing somewhere . |
| 4 | One was slung over my shoulder one had got sort of between two limbs I suspect , holding it round the back like that , and another one was over a protrusion that just seemed handy to hold the lot , and as I walked down the street of course suddenly everybody was glancing at me and I realized what I appeared to be doing . |
| 5 | Malcolm raised his eyebrows at me and I shrugged my shoulders . |
| 6 | Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury . |
| 7 | Well Geoff laughed at me when I told him . |
| 8 | He did n't even look at me when he addressed me . |
| 9 | He looked crossly up at me as he took my horse . |
| 10 | All the servants knew my name and pointed at me as I passed them . |
| 11 | You know how they 're always shouting at me because I hit them too hard ? |
| 12 | I was once a Member of Parliament and one day in the chamber at Westminster , a Puritan , a lozenge of sanctified humility , got up from his arse and roared at me because I called him a blackened turd . |
| 13 | And I 've not looked at them since I wrote them . |
| 14 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 15 | I looked at them and he saw me looking . |
| 16 | I just wondered because we were in Winners once and it had some and he picked them up and he looked at them and he said I do n't think these are the right shape for my car and I know he needs some . |
| 17 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 18 | One of the white thieves came with a whip , cutting legs , backs , faces ; drawing blood ; roaring at them until they understood he wanted them to stand up . |
| 19 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 20 | Clark said there 's a man aiming at you and I turned my head away . |
| 21 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 22 | staying open , I ai n't going , I ca n't handle it I said I just wan na get out , it was really like a sentence I just could n't stand it of course I laughed , me and Elaine went to the meeting same place , same wall and I kept looking at her and we brought you in here to say thanks , and Elaine looked at me and I looked at her and I said well if that 's all he 's got ta say I said I 'm not , I , what did I say to Elaine ? |
| 23 | Fernando turned to look at her and she lifted her head from his shoulder to stare wildly out to the horizon , so engrossed with yet another disturbing thought she did n't notice the curious expression on his face . |
| 24 | He turned and looked at her and she hung her head . |
| 25 | Ha , there was this girl in the club last night and somebody shouted at her and she went what ? |
| 26 | The man on the floor who had jacked up grinned at her and she found herself grinning back . |
| 27 | And I looked at her and I thought you ca n't say that ! |
| 28 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 29 | He stared at her as she shed her shawl and sank into a chair . |
| 30 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |