Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 2 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 3 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was still rocking from the unexpected power his kisses had over her when , looking down at her from his lofty height , he mocked , ‘ Now try and tell me you are n't just anybody 's ! ’ |
| 6 | Suddenly those flaring sapphire eyes were inches from hers , looking down at her from great heights , forcing her to lift her chin a notch higher than was comfortable to look into them . |
| 7 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 8 | She stayed as she was , looking up at him from beneath her long black lashes , allowing herself the faintest smile of pleasure . |
| 9 | ‘ So so , ’ said Julia , looking up at him from her pillows and smiling at the affection and the anxiety in his face . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 12 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 13 | And although the Robemaker lashed out at him from time to time with the thin , cruel rope-lights , he managed not to flinch . |
| 14 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 15 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 16 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 17 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 18 | Plunging his hands deeply into the pockets of his dark tailored suit , he frowned down at her from beneath his heavy brows , the lines of his face taut with strain and tension . |
| 19 | People glance out at me from inside their cocoon . |
| 20 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |
| 21 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 22 | I looked down into the punt and saw Rachel gazing up at me from beneath a wide straw hat . |
| 23 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 24 | Her son twisted to grin up at her from beneath his white cotton sunhat . |
| 25 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 26 | There were slivers of glass sparkling up at them from among the brambles . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mohamed Ali — who cries out at you from our front page today — is just 10 days old and the latest orphan in famine-stricken Somalia . |