Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered at him suspiciously through the gloom . |
| 2 | The throaty rumble of twin diesel motors muttered at them out of the darkness . |
| 3 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 4 | A heavy swell came at them out of the thick darkness . |
| 5 | He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down . |
| 6 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 7 | She let the clutch in and drove towards the road ; she waved at him out of the window . |
| 8 | He looked at her straight in the eyes . |
| 9 | The lift arrived as she said the name , and the two people inside looked at her curiously through the metal lattice . |
| 10 | He lifted his close-shaven muzzle and looked at her hard over the monitor of his reader . |
| 11 | There were also a great many red squirrels in the forest , delicate little creatures with tufted ears who looked at them fearlessly from the high branches . |
| 12 | Connors looked at him intently through the smoke haze as he reached out and switched on a tape recorder . |
| 13 | I looked at him out of the corner of my eye . |
| 14 | I 'll remember how he looked at me just before the Robemaker took him and how he called me ‘ Lady ’ . |
| 15 | She looked at me crossly over the breakfast table . |
| 16 | He looked at me searchingly across the horizontal tree , and I said instantly , " I love you . " |
| 17 | From behind her check-out till , Mrs Patel looked at us curiously over the top of her blue-framed spectacles . |
| 18 | The sun-bathed wall which forms the south face of Lomnicky Stit winked at me early in the trip . |