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Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom .
2	Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray .
3	He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them .
4	Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road .
5	Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head .
6	Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger .
7	Celia was aware of Dr Shalcross looking at her intently across the desk .
8	The way he was looking at it right at the end when he 's looking back at him and he
9	Er be difficult to say because er looking at it purely from the mercenary side of the business ,
10	That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways .
11	The throaty rumble of twin diesel motors muttered at them out of the darkness .
12	Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness .
13	A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness .
14	Look at it in through the in the fume cupboard I can see one from here .
15	I mean if you look at it now without the dining table
16	‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’
17	The tree 's branches clutched at him out of the darkness and he floundered up in an attempt to get clear of them .
18	He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down .
19	He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ?
20	They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard .
21	There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes .
22	It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul .
23	As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception .
24	As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights .
25	She let the clutch in and drove towards the road ; she waved at him out of the window .
26	He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye .
27	He looked at her straight in the eyes .
28	The lift arrived as she said the name , and the two people inside looked at her curiously through the metal lattice .
29	He lifted his close-shaven muzzle and looked at her hard over the monitor of his reader .
30	There were also a great many red squirrels in the forest , delicate little creatures with tufted ears who looked at them fearlessly from the high branches .