Example sentences of "[verb] at me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 3 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 4 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 5 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 6 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 7 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 8 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 9 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 10 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 11 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 12 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 13 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 17 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 18 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 19 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 20 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 21 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 22 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 23 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 24 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 25 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 26 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 27 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 28 | He looked at me across the room . |
| 29 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 30 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |