Example sentences of "[verb] back at her [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror .
2 She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again .
3 Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog .
4 In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago .
5 He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife .
6 When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself .
7 Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face .
8 Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast .
9 By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror .
10 She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears .
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