Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement , but they made no response . |
| 2 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 3 | Tiny red eyes gleamed at her for a moment before disappearing . |
| 4 | Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ? |
| 5 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 6 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 7 | His eyes sparked at her like firecrackers . |
| 8 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 9 | One of the porters beamed at me from under his large straw hat . |
| 10 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
| 11 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
| 12 | She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow . |
| 13 | Part of his speed-of-reflex training as a kung-fu master had been to evade , or divert with forearm blocks , spears flung at him by other trainees in the martial arts school . |
| 14 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 15 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 16 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |
| 17 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 18 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 19 | The words sprayed at her like bullets . |
| 20 | Nikos looked at him with scorn , scooped up the remaining papers and went out . |
| 21 | Large dark eyes looked at her without any expression and all he said was : ‘ Sir ? ’ in a voice both deep and guarded . |
| 22 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
| 23 | Two grey eyes looked at him through tears and he suddenly grinned , his eyes dancing . |
| 24 | Golden eyes looked at him from among the leaves of the yellow maple tree where Peach sat cleverly camouflaged . |
| 25 | For a moment the two gentlemen stared at him in perplexity , as he shook his head , bubbling over at some private joke , until he caught the puzzlement on both faces . |
| 26 | Piers looked at them with a frown . |
| 27 | Piers looked at her with interest . |
| 28 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |
| 29 | His voice was quiet , matter-of-fact and kind , and his eyes smiled at her with interest and curiosity , she thought , beyond the mere charm he must use by native grace upon all who came near him and were weaker than he . |
| 30 | 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 . |