Example sentences of "[adv] at her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 2 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 3 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 4 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 5 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 6 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 7 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 8 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 9 | " Coming out to play ? " he said , smiling up at her in the sunlight . |
| 10 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 11 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 12 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 13 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 14 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 15 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |
| 16 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 17 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 18 | She felt again the presence of the wife , looking kindly and securely at her from the photograph ; do n't resent me , said Helen , I am really neither here nor there , I very much doubt if I signify , you need n't mind . |
| 19 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 20 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 21 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 22 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 23 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 24 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 25 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 26 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 27 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 28 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 29 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 30 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |