Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] [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 | 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 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 7 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |