Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 2 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 8 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 9 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 10 | She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole . |
| 11 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 12 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |