Example sentences of "and [vb past] 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 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 12 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 15 | Jenna turned and looked at him in a startled manner . |
| 16 | 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 18 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 19 | He blinked and looked at me with a return of his tough expression . |
| 20 | Splashing her limbs to get used to the cold , she turned and looked at me with a hint of mischief , as I stood naked staring at her . |
| 21 | He stood and looked at her for a moment longer , his eyes running over her scathingly , taking in the beautiful , angry face , the wide and annoyed grey eyes and the tall , slender figure concealed in such efficient garments . |
| 22 | He stood and looked at her for a moment , hands on hips , jaw set . |
| 23 | He pursed his lips and looked at her with a frown . |
| 24 | He stood and looked at her with an expression of total innocence . |
| 25 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 26 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 29 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 30 | She struggled into the blue dress and looked at herself in the mirror . |