Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 2 | Back in street , behold Henry and Harriet waving at me from our upstairs window . |
| 3 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 4 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
| 5 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 6 | Below the great hill of Knocknarea , brown stark woods , leafless and grim , glowered at me from behind a stone wall . |
| 7 | Doone looked at me from under his eyelids . |
| 8 | One of the porters beamed at me from under his large straw hat . |
| 9 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 10 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 11 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 12 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 13 | Each fired an eight-millimetre cine camera at me from opposite sides of the road . |
| 14 | It 's starting to get dark — a small bright star twinkles cheekily at me from between the chimneys . |
| 15 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 16 | A large blonde girl waved at me from across the room , spilling a large part of her drink down the back of another woman 's dress at the same time . |
| 17 | Before I could reply , she 'd whisked off , running up the aisle after the last leaver , waving her little red hat at me from the doorway like a rallying signal . |
| 18 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 19 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I feel so silly with my lord gazing at me from head to foot and Sir Jacob grinning and laughing like an oaf . |
| 20 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 21 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 22 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 23 | By the open doors , Lily 's photograph stared at me from its table . |
| 24 | A thing slid hugely over the crest of a nearby ridge , and gazed at me from several eyes . |
| 25 | The farmer 's patient eyes in the long , drooping-moustached face looked down at me from his stooping height . |
| 26 | The little brownies and wolf cubs waved at me from their ranks and there were nods and smiles from the people across the road and on all sides . |
| 27 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 28 | The Doctor , in top hat and frock coat , looked confidently out at me from the label as I pulled out the cork and took a sniff . |
| 29 | Carradine looked at me from behind it , then sank back again . |
| 30 | The other nods at me from the comfort of his cracked-leather chair . |