Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 2 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 3 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 4 | At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife . |
| 5 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 6 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
| 7 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 8 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 9 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 10 | its going to come round at you in a minute , so I 'll talk about it until it gets to you , erm , it delighted my children this particular painting , erm and I decided to put my sort of analytical approach to one side erm and do something with that later , so this poem is from my , my children 's point of view and one of the things that are very interested , they were really worried , that , erm , I think it marks the height of the table and the fact that the puppies might fall off and do themselves some harm , that , I 'll read it while its going round and then I can see then , that , so this is , ok , from my children 's point of view this poem , its called Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 11 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 12 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 13 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 14 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 15 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 16 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 17 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 18 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 19 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 20 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 21 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 22 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 23 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
| 24 | Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile . |
| 25 | ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile . |
| 26 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 27 | Guido took a mouthful of his drink and paused in what he was saying , looking up at her with an amused , curious glint in his eye . |
| 28 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 29 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 30 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |