Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] from 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 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 3 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 4 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 5 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 8 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 9 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 10 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 11 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 15 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 16 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 17 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 18 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 19 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 20 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |
| 21 | ‘ And do n't dare tell me it 's going to be too tough for a woman , ’ Mariana shouted , as she glared down at him from the saloon . |
| 22 | After all , that is the first thing about us that others see and a well-groomed , well-dressed image reflected back at us from the mirror goes a long way to bolstering our private and public confidence . |