Example sentences of "[vb past] back at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 2 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 3 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 4 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 5 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 7 | Guido was already heading down the corridor towards his own room , but he stopped suddenly and glanced back at her across his shoulder . |
| 8 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 9 | Fiver gazed back at him with eyes that , like a fly 's , seemed larger than his head . |
| 10 | But there was a numb place deep inside , a place he 'd created with his cruelly scathing words , and she gazed back at him with something near loathing as he walked away towards the stairs . |
| 11 | She gazed back at him in thoughtful silence for a moment , and shook her head doubtfully . |
| 12 | She gazed back at him in wide-eyed horror . |
| 13 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 14 | She put her glasses back on and the lashes , horrifically magnified through the lenses , curled back at her like gigantic spiders ' legs . |
| 15 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 16 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 17 | She stared at the doll which Nanny had put on the shelf , and the doll stared back at her with cold blue eyes . |
| 18 | Ronni stared back at her with a sense of helpless inevitability , suddenly , with a shiver , putting two and two together . |
| 19 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 20 | She was saddened and alarmed by the white face and big dark eyes that stared back at her from a thinner face than she remembered . |
| 21 | Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast . |
| 22 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 23 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 24 | His reflection stared back at him with eyes that were big and dark in a small-boned face . |
| 25 | I sat forward and stared back at him with all the strength of my pioneering ancestors . |
| 26 | They stared back at him with dull eyes . |
| 27 | Its mask-face stared back at him with empty eyes . |
| 28 | Harry stared back at him with wild , wary eyes , the lids drooping a little with weariness . |
| 29 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 30 | Lisa stared back at him in sudden speechless misery . |