Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at her [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured .
2 I looked at her with a new respect .
3 That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter .
4 She seemed vaguely familiar to Juliet , and she stared at her for a moment , trying to place where she might have seen her .
5 I want to thank that girl who spat at her at a bus stop .
6 Both of them looked at her for a second , then continued their hushed conversation .
7 They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles .
8 Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus .
9 Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly .
10 He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence .
11 They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches .
12 He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force .
13 The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before .
14 He came at her from the front then ? ’
15 He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh .
16 ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl .
17 His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered .
18 He grinned at her from a toothless mouth .
19 He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance .
20 It nagged at her like an aching tooth .
21 And he laughed at her like a boy .
22 He looked at her across the pillows .
23 He looked at her without a smile , and without a frown .
24 He looked at her for a moment .
25 He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought .
26 He looked at her for a long moment , puffing on his seisha , then spoke for the first time .
27 He looked at her for a minute , then he looked away , over her head , at the front of the court .
28 He looked at her for a long , silent moment , and Merrill dragged her gaze away with difficulty , maddened by her erratic heartbeat .
29 He looked at her for a long moment , and then he walked slowly towards her .
30 He looked at her for a long moment , and then he reached out and slid his hand under her hair , around the nape of her neck .
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