Example sentences of "back at her [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror .
3 Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog .
4 Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast .
5 And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror .
6 In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago .
7 She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears .
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