Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
2 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
3 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
4 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
5 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
6 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
7 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
8 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
9 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
10 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ 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 . |
13 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
14 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
15 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
16 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
17 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
18 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |