Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 2 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 3 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 4 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 5 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 6 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
| 7 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 8 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 11 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 12 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 16 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 17 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 18 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 19 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 20 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 23 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 24 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 25 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 26 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 27 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 28 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 29 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 30 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |