Example sentences of "[verb] at she [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
2 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
3 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
4 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
5 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
6 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
7 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
8 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
9 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
10 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
11 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
12 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
13 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
14 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
15 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
16 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
17 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
18 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
19 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
20 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
21 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
22 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
23 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
24 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
25 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
26 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
27 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
28 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |