Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 2 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 3 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 4 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 5 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 6 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 7 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 8 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 9 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 12 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 13 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 14 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 15 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 16 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 17 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 18 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 19 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 20 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 23 | Ashley frowned at him along the length of the sofa . |
| 24 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 25 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 26 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 27 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 28 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 29 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 30 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |