Example sentences of "at her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But something nagged at her about what he had just said . |
| 2 | She was grinning as she said it , but he did n't take that in and yelled at her about Women 's Lib claptrap . |
| 3 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 4 | She looked up and saw O'Hara staring at her over Babs Osborne 's heaving shoulders . |
| 5 | The solicitor glared at her over the top of his spectacles , unamused . |
| 6 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 7 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 8 | Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother . |
| 9 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |
| 10 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 11 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 12 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 13 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 14 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 15 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 16 | This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet . |
| 17 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 18 | He made a move towards her and bawled at her to ‘ get out ’ , which she did but not without slamming the door for all she was worth behind her . |
| 19 | He screams back at her to be still . |
| 20 | Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus . |
| 21 | She also got quite a shock when she saw his face as he turned to look at her on film . |
| 22 | No one ever cast smears at her on account of her excellent achievements . |
| 23 | It was neither bright , nor ornamented , nor ill-fitting , but she was such an unfamiliar sight out of boy 's breeches and working boots and fustian shirt that the company burst out laughing , and barracked and whistled and cheered and blew kisses at her on her long walk from the cottage where she had been hiding herself . |
| 24 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 25 | Michael Morrissey looked at her with his white face . |
| 26 | The landlady looked at her with suspicion as she backed into her room and she resolved again that as long as she stayed in London she would n't speak to anyone . |
| 27 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
| 28 | And yet Mrs Browning looked at her with hatred , her pale face growing steadily darker , and said , ‘ Leave me . ’ |
| 29 | I looked at her with affection and Tremayne patted my shoulder and told them I would be staying on as arranged to write his book . |
| 30 | Dunya , the cat , was perched precariously on the rim of the bath , gazing at her with ancient green eyes , her paws extended sphinxlike . |