Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 2 | Torn Sunday colour supplements made eyes at her from the railings . |
| 3 | She narrowed her eyes at him over the coffee-table . |
| 4 | Hector trusted him to guard his back , and concentrated on the men poking spears at him from the front and sides . |
| 5 | Laughing and fighting him ineffectually , his grandmother roared pleasantries at him in a mixture of Ruthenian and broken English . |
| 6 | The other nods at me from the comfort of his cracked-leather chair . |
| 7 | Is that the real reason you tried so hard to keep us apart ? ’ he barked the questions at her in a harsh undertone . |
| 8 | Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly . |
| 9 | I do n't want her shouting names at me over the fence . ’ |
| 10 | The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English . |
| 11 | He stole covert glances at her across the table . |
| 12 | We felt that this new improved offer would enable us to continue in the short term notwithstanding the fact that we still estimated our losses under the new proposals at something in the region of £67,000 . |
| 13 | He 'd go to clubs at one in the morning . |
| 14 | In drawing he said , ‘ You must liken your attempts at it to a visit made to a strange town without a guide . |
| 15 | He bared his teeth at her in a friendly way . |
| 16 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 17 | Jamie snarls at us from the pillow . |
| 18 | The man mouths at him through the glass . |
| 19 | People kept waving warnings at him from a distance . ’ |
| 20 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |