Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 3 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 4 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 5 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 6 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 7 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 8 | He looked sidelong at her with a quick smile , and she frowned and nodded his attention quickly towards the stranger . |
| 9 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 10 | Rachel stared wildly at her as an image of the gynae registrar at St Clare 's came into her mind — an image of a stocky , balding man approaching middle age ; then , as another thought struck her , she said , ‘ But … but … he was … ’ |
| 11 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 12 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 13 | Mollified , it seemed , Janet sat back primly and slimly in her seat , as John Ashenden , seated immediately opposite ( beside Dr Moule ) , looked across at her with a troublous , darkling gaze . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He looked hard at her for a moment , and she tensed . |
| 16 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |
| 17 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
| 18 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |