Example sentences of "[verb] back at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 5 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 6 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 7 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 8 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 9 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 10 | When I turned to look back at him after a short canter , he was winded and scared with barely enough strength to stay on his horse . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 12 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 13 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 19 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 20 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 21 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ Look out , ’ she cried as tongues of flame blow-torched from the crevices around the bung and came licking back at us from the firebox . |
| 23 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 24 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 25 | Ronni stared back at her with a sense of helpless inevitability , suddenly , with a shiver , putting two and two together . |
| 26 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
| 27 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 28 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 29 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 30 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |