Example sentences of "[verb] at her [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 2 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 3 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 4 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 5 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 6 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 7 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 8 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 9 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 10 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 11 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 19 | ( ’ 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 . ) |
| 20 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Silas barked at her in a fury . |
| 23 | Perry stares at her for a moment , and then examines her arm . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 26 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 27 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 28 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 29 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 30 | The old man was staring at her in a most disconcerting way . |