Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] over [art] " 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 If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 She stared at him over the rim of her cup .
7 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 .
8 She looked at him over the top of her glass .
9 She looked at him over the rim of her glass .
10 She looked at him over the top of her cup .
11 She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole .
12 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 .
13 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
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