Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pron] in the " in BNC.
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1 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
2 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
3 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Willi glanced at him in the mirror and thought he still did n't look too good . |
6 | She switched off the engine , glanced at herself in the driving mirror and got out , letting Bunny jump on to the drive . |
7 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
8 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
9 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
10 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
11 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
12 | She stared at herself in the mirror . |
13 | She slapped at him in the dark . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | They looked at themselves in the Hall of a Million Mirrors . |
16 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
17 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
18 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
19 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
20 | I looked at myself in the rearview mirror . |
21 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
22 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
23 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
24 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
25 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
26 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
27 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
28 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
29 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
30 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |