Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 32 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
| 33 | She switched off the engine , glanced at herself in the driving mirror and got out , letting Bunny jump on to the drive . |
| 34 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 35 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 36 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 37 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 38 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
| 39 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 40 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 41 | Coleby stared at him across the table . |
| 42 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 43 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 46 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 47 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 48 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 49 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 50 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 51 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 52 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 53 | She stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 54 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 55 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
| 56 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 57 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 58 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 59 | They looked at themselves in the Hall of a Million Mirrors . |
| 60 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |