Example sentences of "she [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back .
2 She gazed at him in blank astonishment .
3 She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home .
4 She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’
5 She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married .
6 I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity .
7 They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out .
8 She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned .
9 Why was she looking at me like that ?
10 She glanced at him in quick surprise , wondering what sort of favour he could possibly have in mind .
11 She grabbed at it in irritable haste .
12 Stopping in her tracks , she stared at him with cool , blank eyes and freed her arm .
13 She stared at him with defiant hazel eyes .
14 She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes .
15 But … you said — ’ Horror-struck , she stared at him with frightened eyes .
16 But — ’ she stared at him with saucer-wide eyes ‘ — are n't you furious with me ? ’
17 She stared at him with large serious eyes .
18 Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way .
19 ‘ I know , ’ he admitted softly and she stared at him in astonished disbelief .
20 She stared at him in some amazement , and looking rather confused , João backed out and left her with her Imitation .
21 And while she stared at him in some astonishment , ‘ I would never harm you , ’ he added .
22 She stared at him in growing disbelief .
23 Guy 's voice was harsh , the taut mask of detachment crumbling as she stared at him in bleak misery .
24 I played it to my mother and she stared at me in total disbelief .
25 The moment Melissa entered the house , she clutched at her with both hands .
26 Sometimes , when she looked at her like that , it seemed to Emmie that she could easily forget what Gran was like when she was well — how she had looked , sitting in the kitchen all last winter , rocking in her old chair and telling them stories and teaching Oliver games to play with her darning eggs .
27 She looked at them with pacific surprise .
28 She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’
29 And she looked at me like that .
30 She looked at him at last , with such obvious disgust that de Raimes ’ face darkened .
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