Example sentences of "[vb past] at her [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 2 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 3 | The moment Melissa entered the house , she clutched at her with both hands . |
| 4 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
| 5 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 6 | He stared at her in some perplexity . |
| 7 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 8 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 9 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
| 10 | Roman sat on a corner of her desk and looked at her with such a grave expression that she cried out in alarm . |
| 11 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 12 | He shrugged and looked at her with those unfathomable grey eyes . |
| 13 | He looked at her with those bleak eyes . |
| 14 | Large dark eyes looked at her without any expression and all he said was : ‘ Sir ? ’ in a voice both deep and guarded . |
| 15 | Ruth looked at her after all . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't mean we should get to know each other — ’ She broke off , not sure what she did mean when he looked at her in such open invitation . |
| 17 | It is time we looked at her in more detail . |
| 18 | No one looked at her like that ! |
| 19 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
| 20 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
| 21 | Sometimes , when she looked at her like that , it seemed to Emmie that she could easily forget what Gran was like when she was well — how she had looked , sitting in the kitchen all last winter , rocking in her old chair and telling them stories and teaching Oliver games to play with her darning eggs . |
| 22 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
| 23 | And she says Jean you know well you can see er she says you know the day before Ros was in Lisburn and she says you know the way when you 're standing and from the back you can feel somebody that their eyes are penetrating through you and she said she happened to turn round and there she 's sitting in , in this girl 's car and just er looked at her like that . |
| 24 | He smiled at her with that lopsided grin and she was undone . |
| 25 | He smiled at her with such confidence that she felt comforted . |
| 26 | Sandra smiled at her with such malignant dislike that she shivered . |
| 27 | The two boys gazed at her with such blazing admiration that she came close to blushing . |
| 28 | Diamonds , emeralds , rubies and sapphires as well as a mixture of semi-precious stones glinted and sparkled at her from all directions . |