Example sentences of "[verb] at her from [art] " 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 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 9 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 10 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 11 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 12 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
| 13 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 14 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 15 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 16 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 17 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 18 | A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep . |
| 19 | She cracked eggs into a frying pan and stood over them while they cooked , wincing as hot fat spat at her from the pan . |
| 20 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 21 | Reaching across , he slammed the door again , then glared at her from the space of inches . |
| 22 | Round the corner another old woman in her seventies awaited the departure of the year , huddled in bed for warmth , clad in layer upon layer of old nylon nightdress , woolly cardigan , matted flannel dressing-gown , gazing at an unsatisfactory black and white television flickering at her from a chair by the bed . |
| 23 | A pink carnation smirked at her from a transparent vase on the table . |