Example sentences of "[adv] at [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group . |
| 2 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 3 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 4 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 5 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 6 | As we walked along the track from the car park on that sparkling May morning , swifts skimmed low over our heads after swarming gnats , dainty white lady 's smock swayed in the breeze , and a little owl stared solemnly and unblinkingly at us from the fork of an oak tree . |
| 7 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 8 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 9 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 10 | She felt again the presence of the wife , looking kindly and securely at her from the photograph ; do n't resent me , said Helen , I am really neither here nor there , I very much doubt if I signify , you need n't mind . |
| 11 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 12 | As she looked across at him during the game to see him , chin propped on his hand , his whole face a mask of concentration , but paradoxically , at the same time , as relaxed and self-forgetful as she had ever known him , it was plain how handsome he must once have been . |
| 13 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 14 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 15 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 16 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |