Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] [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 Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling .
7 All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible .
10 An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door .
11 Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table .
12 But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper .
16 He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening .
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