Example sentences of "[verb] at her [prep] [art] " 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 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 5 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 6 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 7 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 8 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 9 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 10 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 21 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 22 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 23 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 24 | She turned , hearing the stillness that followed the rustling of his movements , and he was standing in the doorway , looking at her with a strange , soft look of mingled reluctance and resolution . |
| 25 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 28 | ‘ These days , ’ he said , looking at her in a way which took away what little breath she had left , ‘ I have this picture etched in my brain . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |