Example sentences of "[v-ing] at her [prep] [art] " 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 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
11 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
12 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
13 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
14 | She turned , hearing the stillness that followed the rustling of his movements , and he was standing in the doorway , looking at her with a strange , soft look of mingled reluctance and resolution . |
15 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
18 | ‘ These days , ’ he said , looking at her in a way which took away what little breath she had left , ‘ I have this picture etched in my brain . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
25 | 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 ? ’ |
26 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
27 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
28 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
29 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
30 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |