Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 32 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 33 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 34 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 35 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
| 36 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 37 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 38 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 39 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 40 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 41 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 42 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 43 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 44 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 45 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 46 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 47 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 48 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 49 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 50 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 51 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
| 52 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 53 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
| 54 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 55 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 56 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 57 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 58 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 59 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 60 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |