Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 4 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 9 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 10 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 11 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 12 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 13 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 20 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 21 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 22 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 23 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 24 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 25 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 26 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 27 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 28 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 29 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 30 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |