Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made him look at me and see how pale I am . |
| 2 | I expected you to look at them . ’ |
| 3 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 4 | my mum told me to wipe some of it , some of it off cos I could n't her shout , I , I , I caught her shouting at my sister , she got really angry with my sister |
| 5 | ‘ I told ye to hit at it , I didna' tell ye to hit it , ’ he muttered . |
| 6 | But his voice was calm as he said , ‘ I told you to yell at me , but I did n't think you would . |
| 7 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
| 8 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 9 | When I replied he looked at me , then at my colleague , and addressing him , said , ‘ Oh well , at any rate he was born in Canada . ’ |
| 10 | I heard him shouting at it . |
| 11 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 12 | My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ . |
| 13 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 14 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 15 | I heard you shouting at it . |
| 16 | " Oh , I heard you shouting at Mr. Matthew . " |
| 17 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 18 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 19 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 20 | And it and this , the one , the last one was just after I left so I did n't know her , I knew her to look at but I did n't know her personally . |
| 21 | I saw her looking at him . |
| 22 | When Caroline was home on holiday from her boarding school , my eyes used to light up when from my place in the choirstalls I saw her arrive at church . |
| 23 | I saw him looking at her , you know , when |
| 24 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 25 | The path I took ran past Mr Frankland 's house , and I saw him standing at his gate . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 27 | I saw you looking at me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I thought I saw you looking at them before we started . |
| 29 | I saw you staring at Francis ; I could n't make it out . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And I saw you glance at my car . |