Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] [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 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 12 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 13 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 14 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 15 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 16 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 19 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 20 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 23 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 26 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 27 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 28 | She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence . |
| 29 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 30 | Rincewind glared at him in the hellish purple glow . |