Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] 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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 8 | To look across and see that gorgeous smile , find those brilliant eyes burning at you with desire and love , instead of derision and mockery . |
| 9 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 10 | I lit up and stood there trying to answer all the questions coming at me in French and English . |
| 11 | Questions biting at her like rats , ending up with the sharpest bite of all . |
| 12 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 13 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 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 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 16 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 17 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 18 | As he trotted his horse forward over the intervening space Lieutenant Stapleton noticed two giant white faces smiling at him with understanding and compassion . |