Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pron] [prep] the " 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 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 6 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |
| 17 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 18 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 20 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 21 | He nodded towards Thomas , who had wandered off to squat down on the terrace and poke at something at the foot of the vines . |
| 22 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 23 | He was wearing a tin helmet and staring at something on the wall , a picture . |
| 24 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 25 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 27 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 28 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 29 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 30 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |