Example sentences of "she [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 2 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 3 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 4 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 5 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 8 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 9 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 10 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 11 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 12 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 13 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 14 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 15 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 16 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 17 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 18 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 19 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 20 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 21 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 22 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 23 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 24 | She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole . |
| 25 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not the slightest bit interested in you — or what you wear ! ’ she hissed at him beneath the sound of the children 's laughter as they jumped off the bed , and scampered about the room . |
| 27 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 28 | She glared at him across the glass-shaded candlelight , feeling a rare impulse to inflict physical violence . |
| 29 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |