Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
2 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
3 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
4 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
5 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
6 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
7 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
8 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
9 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
10 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
11 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
12 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
13 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
14 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
15 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
16 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
17 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |
18 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
19 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
20 | Salt was scowling at her like a dried prune . |
21 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |