Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He peered down at me and scratched his head as he replaced his cap on his bald head .
2 He looked at me and asked me to take it .
3 He peered closer at me and asked what an Englishman was doing in Paris .
4 They laughed at me and told me my fingers were no use for that work , which was true .
5 Ven exclaimed — and very nearly made her drop when he went on , ‘ One way and another , woman , I 've been interested in you since I pulled up my car behind yours , and you batted those gorgeous green eyes at me and told me that your car would n't go . ’
6 He looked at me and chewed his bottom lip as if searching for a remnant of breakfast .
7 He just looked at me and said something like , ‘ How 's my friend Mr Hattersley , then ? ’ sort of thing .
8 ‘ A fan behind the dug-out snarled at me and said I should have been killed along with my mate Brian Tiler and three others in a car smash , ’ he said .
9 She had the door open at the moment with these bloody dogs yapping and she looked at me and said I ca n't hear them !
10 He looked at me and said he often wondered how I told my books apart .
11 Then Lydia , who was part of the group , had a go at me and said you had to put your whole being into Christ 's hands and trust him to do the rest .
12 ‘ He just looked at me and said our affair had to stop .
13 And she looked at me and blinked her eyes I says you what means .
14 Then the big grey monster ran back through the trees , jumped at me and knocked me down .
15 Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the .
16 I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that .
17 She looked at me and put her finger to her lips , then got out the broom and began to sweep up the crumbs .
18 He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder .
19 She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house .
20 She raised an eyebrow at me and gave me a wry smile .
21 ‘ We were outnumbered , but we threw stones back at them and drove them away , ’ he said .
22 She smiled vaguely at them and made her way to Jack 's office .
23 Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here .
24 And I remember this time in Winners when he , he picked them up and looked at them and said I do n't think these are the right ones for my car and that , that 's why I thought
25 She looked up at them and allowed her glasses to fall from her nose .
26 The priest looked around at them and curled his lip .
27 Talbot looked at them and handed them over to Hawkins .
28 Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting .
29 He still drank , began to smoke , and only took notice of his wife and child to shout at them or hit them , usually when he was drunk .
30 He lurched forward with intent to swipe at her but lost his balance and was thankful to fall heavily back into the chair .
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