Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 4 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 5 | Somehow the expanse of green and white cloth cascaded from her trembling hands towards the ground , and as she muttered furiously at it under her breath he looked round and saw her . |
| 6 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 7 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
| 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 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
| 10 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 11 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 12 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't look straight at him like that , ’ Nick said . |
| 16 | When he opened the door of his sitting-room , Mike Pumfrey saw Mrs Crumwallis , seated bony and straight-backed on a sofa , peering concentratedly at them through her pebble glasses . |
| 17 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 18 | He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep . |
| 19 | Shiona clenched her fists beneath the table and continued to glare across at him with ferociously narrowed eyes . |
| 20 | He had a lot of peculiar habits , one of them being to stare hard at you with steely eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 22 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 23 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 24 | Rory gazed helplessly at him through haunted , agonised eyes . |
| 25 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 26 | The secret for any cat-phobic individuals who want to keep their distance is to lean towards a cat , stare fixedly at it with wide-open eyes and make agitated hand movements , asking the cat in strident tones to come and sit on their laps . |
| 27 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |
| 28 | Bernice waited for the Doctor to continue , but he walked on and then glanced sideways at her as if expecting another question . |
| 29 | He glanced across at her with faint amusement . |
| 30 | She thrust it back out again and scowled across at him as , with a smile , he handed her her coffee-cup . |