Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
2 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
3 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
4 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
5 | I looked at him over the roof . |
6 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
7 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
8 | I looked at myself in the rearview mirror . |
9 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
10 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
11 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
12 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
13 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
14 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
15 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
16 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
17 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
18 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
19 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
20 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
21 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
22 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
23 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
24 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
25 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
26 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
27 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
28 | She stared at herself in the mirror . |
29 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
30 | 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 . |