Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 3 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 4 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 5 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 8 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 9 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 12 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 15 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |
| 16 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 17 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |