Example sentences of "[v-ing] at her [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
2 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
5 | The child did n't move , and just sat there looking at her as if astonished . |
6 | He did not answer , just stood there looking at her as if trying to make up his mind how to begin . |
7 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
8 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
9 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
10 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
11 | ‘ You imagine she is blind because she feels I am annoyed ? ’ he rasped , looking at her as if she were stupid . |
12 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
13 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
14 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
15 | He was looking at her as if he was wondering , will she be all right ? |
16 | 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 . ’ |
17 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
20 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
21 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
22 | ‘ He does n't , eh ? ’ said the tramp , who was looking at her with great interest . |
23 | Surely she was too thin by far for a man 's taste , yet the one at her side today was a toff and no mistake , and it was obvious he cared about the girl by the way he kept looking at her with concern in his eyes . |
24 | And the golden beast was standing on the footpath in front of Anabelle , looking at her with its huge brown eyes . |
25 | However , the marquis was looking at her with affection and she took courage in both hands . |
26 | At other times , mostly when he smiled in that particular way of Tyler 's , leaning his head sideways and looking at her with incredible love in his sparkling green eyes , she found it unbelievably painful . |
27 | ‘ If he 's dead he 's no threat , ’ Plummer said , looking at her with cold eyes . |
28 | Billie came awake , wondered where she was , saw the girl looking at her with concern . |
29 | She held a candle aloft and saw the other child looking at her with eyes like saucers . |
30 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |