Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile . |
| 9 | ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile . |
| 10 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 14 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 15 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 16 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
| 17 | He glanced down at her with a slight smile . |
| 18 | Dane glanced down at her with a frown . |
| 19 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 24 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 25 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 28 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |
| 29 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 30 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |