Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 2 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 3 | Somehow the expanse of green and white cloth cascaded from her trembling hands towards the ground , and as she muttered furiously at it under her breath he looked round and saw her . |
| 4 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 5 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 6 | He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep . |
| 7 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 8 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |
| 9 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 10 | Rory gazed helplessly at him through haunted , agonised eyes . |
| 11 | Bernice waited for the Doctor to continue , but he walked on and then glanced sideways at her as if expecting another question . |
| 12 | He glanced across at her with faint amusement . |
| 13 | She thrust it back out again and scowled across at him as , with a smile , he handed her her coffee-cup . |
| 14 | as if aware of her dilemma , Rune glanced briefly at her before returning his attention to the road ahead . |
| 15 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 16 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 17 | It niggled away at her for about perhaps another two seconds , then , apropos of nothing , almost without her own volition , she found that she was suddenly bursting out , ‘ The only time your name was mentioned at lunchtime was when I stated that I was here , in Czechoslovakia , to interview you . ’ |
| 18 | He looked sidelong at her with a quick smile , and she frowned and nodded his attention quickly towards the stranger . |
| 19 | Maria looked straight at him with hard eyes . |
| 20 | After a moment , he lifted his dark head and looked straight at her with hard , narrowed eyes . |
| 21 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 22 | Rachel stared wildly at her as an image of the gynae registrar at St Clare 's came into her mind — an image of a stocky , balding man approaching middle age ; then , as another thought struck her , she said , ‘ But … but … he was … ’ |
| 23 | She stared confusedly at him for several seconds , then lowered her head , gazing into the glass she was holding . |
| 24 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 25 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 26 | Mollified , it seemed , Janet sat back primly and slimly in her seat , as John Ashenden , seated immediately opposite ( beside Dr Moule ) , looked across at her with a troublous , darkling gaze . |
| 27 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 28 | From time to time Cathy Carne looked across at him with obvious unease . |
| 29 | As she looked across at him during the game to see him , chin propped on his hand , his whole face a mask of concentration , but paradoxically , at the same time , as relaxed and self-forgetful as she had ever known him , it was plain how handsome he must once have been . |
| 30 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |