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 . |