Example sentences of "[verb] at her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 2 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 3 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 4 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 5 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 6 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 7 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 8 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 9 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 10 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 11 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 12 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 13 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 14 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 15 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 16 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 17 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 18 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 19 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |