Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A familiar but still timid stray cat peered at him from beneath a blackcurrant bush and howled piteously . |
| 32 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 33 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 34 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 35 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 36 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 37 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 38 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 39 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 40 | He coughed twice before saying , ‘ Yes ? ’ then leaned forward and peered at her as if his sight were bad , then coughed a harsh , chest-tearing cough before asking further , ‘ Yes , what d' you want ? ’ |
| 41 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 42 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
| 43 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 44 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 45 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 46 | The person who had nearly strangled her had come at her from behind . |
| 47 | ‘ 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 . |
| 48 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 49 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 50 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 51 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 52 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 53 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 54 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 55 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 56 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 57 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 58 | Eva looks at me before replying . |
| 59 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 60 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |