Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me oddly until I named the price I would pay him . " |
| 2 | 16 She does n't look at me again till she 's wiped off her beak and stretched both wings , one at a time . |
| 3 | She squints at me again and then looks round the shop for summat . |
| 4 | He came at me again and I could tell he was gonig to make another stab at a heavy masculine embrace . |
| 5 | He looked at me again and nodded . |
| 6 | Kodiak , Mrs Knelle 's huge shaggy Alsatian , barked at me excitedly but was soon soothed by his mistress . |
| 7 | Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 9 | I do n't see many of my kind , so people look at me strangely and ask — rudely — what I am . |
| 10 | She looked at me slyly and then sighed . |
| 11 | He looked at me bewilderedly and his mother broke in . |
| 12 | He looked at me awhile before he said . |
| 13 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 14 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 15 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 16 | The koko serves us tea respectfully , although she smiles at me complicitly as she hands me my mug . |
| 17 | She really believed I would put up with anything she threw at me just so I could possess her . |
| 18 | She was n't changing her plans and returning , yet she seemed to be angrily tugging at me just as I was turning away . |
| 19 | They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine . |
| 20 | And you 've done nothing but snap and shout at me ever since we came on board . ’ |
| 21 | Key words in the rise of The Smiths : LUCK : They wept at me virtually that they were told by Rough Trade , that they were a ‘ minor Rough Trade ’ group . |
| 22 | He chuckled and looked at me assessingly as I stood in his doorway . |
| 23 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
| 24 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 25 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 26 | She looks at me sometimes and gives sad little sighs , bewildered smiles , as though she really is n't quite sure where I come from . |
| 27 | He looked at me warily and then nodded . |
| 28 | DIANE GAMOCHE ( STUDENT ) : I was hiding beneath two desks , and he stopped and shot at me twice but nothing happened . |
| 29 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 30 | blinked at me blearily as I told him we had better ring the hospital . |