Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny red eyes gleamed at her for a moment before disappearing . |
| 2 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 3 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 4 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 5 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 6 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
| 7 | Piers looked at them with a frown . |
| 8 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 9 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 10 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 11 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 12 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
| 13 | Mr Lawrie , who now lives at Dunshalt in Fife , has gone to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to clear his name following allegations levelled at him after the bank 's crash . |
| 14 | Neil Davidson , counsel for the Deans , said they denied allegations levelled at them by the shareholders , many of which can not be reported because of restrictions imposed by Lord Cullen . |
| 15 | While war could create serious difficulties for the merchant class , other social groups looked at it in a different light . |
| 16 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 17 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 18 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 19 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 20 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 21 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 22 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 23 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 24 | The others stared at her for a moment . |
| 25 | The Tories gazed at her in a new light . |