Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at her [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own .
2 He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment .
3 The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions .
4 The priest looked at her with contempt .
5 Pansy looked at her as if he was trying to work out how to combine her with deuterium and to calculate the effects of the resulting explosion .
6 She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's .
7 He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask .
8 She held a candle aloft and saw the other child looking at her with eyes like saucers .
9 Billie came awake , wondered where she was , saw the girl looking at her with concern .
10 The other girl looked at her with an expression of dismay .
11 Angel looked at her in wonder .
12 The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves .
13 ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body .
14 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 .
15 Her husband looked at her with annoyance in his cold blue eyes , his thin lips pursed in an expression she knew very well .
16 The mouse looked at her with its little eyes , but it said nothing .
17 The housekeeper looked at her with concern .
18 Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well .
19 The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers .
20 Suddenly , Damian turned his dark head to look at her with narrowed eyes .
21 Buddie lowered his newspaper and turned his head to look at her from beneath furrowed black brows .
22 Madame looked at her through a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand .
23 Her father grinned at her from over the rim of his spectacles .
24 This continued for a long time during which he shuffled his feet uncomfortably , controlling his immediate impulse to shout at her to be quiet .
25 Startled , she turned to discover the dark-haired woman glaring at her through eyes that were like burning coals .
26 Coffin looked at her with sympathy .
27 Her father looked at her in open admiration .
28 The other woman stared at her for a long moment , then , with great dignity , collected up the papers lying on the desk in front of her and got to her feet .
29 Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought .
30 Ace looked at her with astonishment .
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