Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She peered appraisingly at herself in the mirror , pulling faces as if she were alone , and I was embarrassed by her candour . |
| 3 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dragging two novices with buoyancy problems looking excitedly at everything on the bottom , must have taken some stamina . |
| 9 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 10 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 13 | He arrived home at one in the morning . |
| 14 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 15 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 16 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never seen so many motorbikes at once before , ’ Maria confessed , staring disbelievingly at one in the lane alongside , two small children wedged between youthful-looking adults . |
| 18 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 19 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 20 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 21 | The special difficulty is not how to choose between several alternative computational accounts , once we have got them , but how to arrive even at one in the first place . |
| 22 | Brushing the damp hair from her brow , Laura stared drearily at herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 24 | As she looked across at him during the game to see him , chin propped on his hand , his whole face a mask of concentration , but paradoxically , at the same time , as relaxed and self-forgetful as she had ever known him , it was plain how handsome he must once have been . |
| 25 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |
| 26 | Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose . |
| 27 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |