Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror .
2 The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass .
3 ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up .
4 He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear .
5 During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard .
6 Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’
7 He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it .
8 ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time .
9 She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror .
10 Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband .
11 A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face .
12 Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys .
13 ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality .
14 His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her .
15 Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man .
16 As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course .
17 A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied .
18 He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’
19 She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister .
20 Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day .
21 Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass .
22 After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses .
23 The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence .
24 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes .
25 It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than
26 It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear .
27 All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren .
28 Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror .
29 He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much .
30 There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’
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