Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 2 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 5 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 6 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 7 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 8 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 9 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 10 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 11 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 12 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 13 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 14 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 15 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 16 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 17 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 18 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 19 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 20 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 21 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 22 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 23 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 24 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 25 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 26 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
| 27 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |
| 28 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 29 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 30 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |