Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
| 8 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 9 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 12 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 13 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 14 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 15 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 16 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 20 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 21 | He looked sidelong at her with a quick smile , and she frowned and nodded his attention quickly towards the stranger . |
| 22 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 23 | Rachel stared wildly at her as an image of the gynae registrar at St Clare 's came into her mind — an image of a stocky , balding man approaching middle age ; then , as another thought struck her , she said , ‘ But … but … he was … ’ |
| 24 | Holding her breath , she waited while Luke Calder walked round and climbed behind the wheel , starting the engine before glancing sideways at her with a mocking little smile . |
| 25 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 26 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 27 | Mollified , it seemed , Janet sat back primly and slimly in her seat , as John Ashenden , seated immediately opposite ( beside Dr Moule ) , looked across at her with a troublous , darkling gaze . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He looked hard at her for a moment , and she tensed . |
| 30 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |