Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
2 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
3 | Tiny red eyes gleamed at her for a moment before disappearing . |
4 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
5 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
6 | The helmeted figure shouted at him through a face mask . |
7 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
8 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
9 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
10 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
11 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
12 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
13 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
14 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
15 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
16 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
17 | Bert looked at him for a full half minute . |
18 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
19 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
20 | Travis stared at her for a second or two , then reached for the champagne bottle . |
21 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
22 | Even Granny was shocked when Grimma looked at her with a face from which all the colour had drained away . |
23 | Piers looked at them with a frown . |
24 | And Hector sneered at him for a coward ! |
25 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
26 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
27 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
28 | Nick Stanton gazed at her with an uncustomary scowl . |
29 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
30 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |