Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realized that everyone looked at her with new eyes , handling her like a precious piece of porcelain to be admired but not touched . |
| 2 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 3 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
| 4 | ‘ And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’ |
| 5 | You see I never believe in smoke without fire , and when our man is nicked on a spying charge then I say to myself that somebody got at him , somebody asked a favour of him , somebody got round him . |
| 6 | I was amazed that nobody stared at us , or even shouted back . |
| 7 | But he knew that she stared at him , and felt rather than saw the hostility there . |
| 8 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |
| 9 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 10 | It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him . |
| 11 | ‘ Never mind , ’ called McAllister , ‘ needs must … ’ and wobbled down Vetch Street , praying that she arrived at her destination in one piece , the balance of the wretched thing being all wrong , especially with the overloaded basket at the front . |
| 12 | She turned to run , but Goldman was on her , grabbing her arms , her shoulders , fending off the wild blows that she aimed at his face . |
| 13 | He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril . |
| 14 | I urge you to take your master into your confidence , explaining that you glanced at my book by chance while cleaning his study , and that you have been greatly disturbed by it . |
| 15 | In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined . |
| 16 | It 's time that they looked at themselves . |
| 17 | As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’ |
| 18 | She spoke with such soft intensity that he stared at her for a long , thoughtful moment . |
| 19 | Four turns to the left on each lap of the compound , and he fancied that he knew at which moment he must drop his shoulder , cut his stride and turn . |
| 20 | His right hand was half hidden by the cover flap of the holster that he wore at his belt . |
| 21 | Story has it that when Minton hung this portrait at Allen Street it so offended an art critic that he spat at it . |
| 22 | The way in which the contours of objects are continually broken in Cézanne 's painting reinforces the impression that he looked at his subject from more than one position . |
| 23 | Tottenham fans are still waiting to see the England Under-21 international produce the scintillating form that he displayed at his former club Portsmouth . |
| 24 | He put a hand into a pocket of his elegant duster coat and brought out a small .22 pistol that he pointed at my face . |
| 25 | That he emerged at his door shaking is not in doubt . |
| 26 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 27 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |