Example sentences of "[v-ing] at she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 2 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 3 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |
| 4 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 5 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 6 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 7 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 8 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 9 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 10 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 11 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 12 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 13 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 14 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 15 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 16 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 20 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 21 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 22 | Gazing at her in the hall was the stuffed body of Grandpa 's black clumber spaniel , Pickwick . |
| 23 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |
| 24 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |