Example sentences of "[verb] at her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 35 | 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 ? ’ |
| 36 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 37 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 38 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 39 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 40 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 41 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
| 44 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 45 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 46 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 49 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 52 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 53 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 54 | Silas barked at her in a fury . |
| 55 | Perry stares at her for a moment , and then examines her arm . |
| 56 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 57 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 58 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 59 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 60 | Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry . |