Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at her [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile . |
| 11 | ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile . |
| 12 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 16 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 17 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 18 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 19 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 20 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
| 21 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 22 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 23 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 24 | He glanced down at her with a slight smile . |
| 25 | Dane glanced down at her with a frown . |
| 26 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 27 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 28 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 29 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 30 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |