Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 2 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 3 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 4 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 5 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 6 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 9 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 13 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 14 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 15 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 16 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |
| 17 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 18 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
| 19 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 21 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 22 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 23 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 24 | Elinor looked at him over the rim of her magazine . |
| 25 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 26 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 27 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 28 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 29 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 30 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |