Example sentences of "[verb] at her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 33 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 34 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 35 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 38 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 39 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 42 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 43 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 44 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 45 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 46 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 47 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 48 | ready to thrust at her inside the door . |
| 49 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 50 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 51 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 52 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 53 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 54 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 55 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
| 56 | Vitor looked at her across the table . |
| 57 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 58 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 59 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 60 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |