Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 2 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 3 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 4 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 5 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 7 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 8 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 9 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 10 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 11 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 12 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 13 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 14 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 15 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
| 16 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 17 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 18 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 19 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 20 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 21 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 22 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 23 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 24 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 25 | A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep . |
| 26 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 27 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
| 28 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 29 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 30 | Reaching across , he slammed the door again , then glared at her from the space of inches . |