Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
2 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
3 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
4 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
5 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
6 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
11 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
12 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
13 | She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure . |
14 | He glanced down at her with a slight smile . |
15 | Dane glanced down at her with a frown . |
16 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
17 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
18 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
19 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
20 | 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 |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ 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 . |
23 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
24 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |
25 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
26 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
27 | McKitrick 's house lounged on a maple-strewn ridge , sleek and contemporary , with a gable end sporting one huge circular window that stared down at her like an unblinking eye . |
28 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
29 | Hari asked softly and Edward looked down at her with a shrewdness that disconcerted her . |
30 | Giles looked down at her with a rueful smile . |