Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 2 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 3 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 4 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 7 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 8 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 9 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 10 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 11 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 12 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 13 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 14 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 15 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
| 16 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 17 | She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure . |
| 18 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 19 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 20 | He glanced down at her with a slight smile . |
| 21 | Dane glanced down at her with a frown . |
| 22 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 23 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 26 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 27 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 28 | ‘ That when I ‘ dared ’ to so compel you , you flew out at me like the spirited filly you are under that demure exterior , ’ stated her ladyship with a quizzing look . |
| 29 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 30 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |