Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 2 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 3 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 4 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 5 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 6 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 7 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 8 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 9 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 10 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 11 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 12 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 13 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 14 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 16 | She glared up at him through the darkness , her fingers clinging to the reassuring warmth of his broad shoulders . |
| 17 | Turning around to peer up at him in the gathering darkness , Laura had no clue what he was thinking as she viewed his bland expression , which echoed the studied unconcern in his voice . |
| 18 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 19 | " Coming out to play ? " he said , smiling up at her in the sunlight . |
| 20 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 21 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 22 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 23 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 24 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 25 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 26 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 27 | The Doctor , in top hat and frock coat , looked confidently out at me from the label as I pulled out the cork and took a sniff . |
| 28 | It was only then that he became aware of the stench of fetid breath as the figure drew its lips back over yellowing teeth to snarl at him again ; only then that he saw raging , bloodshot eyes glaring out at him from the hair covered face . |
| 29 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 30 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |