Example sentences of "[verb] at me [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 3 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 4 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 5 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 6 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 7 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 9 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 10 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 11 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 14 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 15 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 16 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 17 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 18 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 19 | He looked at me across the room . |
| 20 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 21 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 22 | Malc reappeared round the door , looked at me over the top of his specs and reached out and I walked towards his outstretched arms on liquid legs . |
| 23 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 24 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 25 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 26 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 27 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 28 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 29 | Margaret smiled at me over the table as if she had read my mind and was too happy to be anything but amused by the fact . |
| 30 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |