Example sentences of "[v-ing] back at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 2 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 3 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 4 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 5 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 6 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 7 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |
| 8 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 9 | ‘ Look out , ’ she cried as tongues of flame blow-torched from the crevices around the bung and came licking back at us from the firebox . |
| 10 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 11 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |
| 12 | He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium . |