Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [pers pn] [prep] 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 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 7 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 8 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 15 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 16 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 17 | Lucie stared up at him from the plank floor , his eyebrows twitching with dismay . |
| 18 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 19 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 20 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 23 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 26 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 27 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 28 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |