Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 2 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 7 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 8 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 9 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 10 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 11 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 12 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 13 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Vember , that legendary classic of the Rock and Ice years ; Vember , the route that had scoffed out at him from the pages of Hard Rock with the ultimate aura of impregnability ; Vember — probably the only E1 , 5b pitch he would ever lead ; Vember , oh no — he would never forget ! |
| 18 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 19 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 20 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 21 | It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face . |
| 22 | ‘ Look out , ’ she cried as tongues of flame blow-torched from the crevices around the bung and came licking back at us from the firebox . |
| 23 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 24 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 25 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 26 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 27 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 28 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 29 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 30 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |