Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 2 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 3 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 4 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 5 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 6 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 7 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 8 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 9 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 11 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 12 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 13 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 14 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 15 | She struggled into the blue dress and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 16 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 17 | She clipped the long , dark swathes of her hair back from her face with a couple of combs ; then she slowly walked over and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 18 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 19 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 20 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 21 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 22 | As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them . |