Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Dyson stood by the stove , gazing down at her with serious ferocity . |
2 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |
3 | But he just raised his eyebrows , looking down at her with mocking disdain . |
4 | She only became aware of her rather foolish escapade when she found Alain towering over her , looking down at her with narrowed , amused eyes , his lips quirking very close to open laughter . |
5 | He suddenly swung her up into his arms , looking down at her with burning eyes . |
6 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
7 | He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes . |
8 | Suddenly those flaring sapphire eyes were inches from hers , looking down at her from great heights , forcing her to lift her chin a notch higher than was comfortable to look into them . |
9 | But at least she was safe from the man on the ground , who now seemed to be recovering and was looking up at her with intense fury as he rubbed the area just below his ribs . |
10 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
11 | She 's actually a really nice woman and she took a lot of time to really explain to me what was going on with her at that time . |
12 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |
13 | She opened her eyes and froze with horror and disbelief at the sight of a vast creature staring down at her with green eyes each as big as a lilypond . |
14 | Rune barred her way , staring down at her with puzzled , angry eyes , his breath sawing heavily between his teeth . |
15 | No , this was a shark , a deadly , multi-toothed shark , and he was homing in on her with lethal precision . |
16 | She felt as though control was slipping away from her in some obscure way . |
17 | Suddenly a tall , broad-shouldered man was standing in her path , arms extended , glowering down at her with all the wrath of hell . |
18 | At the centre of this joyous court life stood the figure of Eleanor , " dominating all around her by that intellectual radiance , that love of literature and fine language which was her hall-mark " . |