Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] from under " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was looking at me from under his dark brows , his voice low . |
| 4 | Hoomey was looking at her from under the seat in front . |
| 5 | One of the porters beamed at me from under his large straw hat . |
| 6 | He scowled at her from under his brows . |
| 7 | In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived . |
| 8 | Briant stood still , staring at him from under his brows , and Kegan stared back , his heavy face gleaming slightly with sweat . |
| 9 | She waggled suggestive eyebrows , stared at him from under her eyelashes . |
| 10 | He looked at her from under his brows . |
| 11 | He looked at her from under those thick dark lashes , as though contemplating whether to answer her question or not . |
| 12 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 13 | Doone looked at me from under his eyelids . |
| 14 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 15 | He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |