Example sentences of "[adv prt] at her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra prised herself reluctantly out of the chair and stood looking down at her Great Aunt . |
| 2 | He stared down at her upturned face , her soft pink lips parted on a gasp . |
| 3 | She blurted it out quite innocently and he stood and looked down at her upturned face . |
| 4 | When he lifted his head , gazed down at her stunned face , her bruised and swollen mouth , his measured gaze was brilliant with banked-down emotion . |
| 5 | She did n't see Travis lift his head to look down at her sleeping form , nor the strange little smile that twisted his lips before he lay down again , tucking her body closely into the warmth of his . |
| 6 | As he looked down at her sleeping face , sucking contentedly on her thumb , he swore that he would commit murder if it kept his family as happy as they were now . |
| 7 | She took one glass off the tray , unbalanced the entire thing , and stood there looking sadly down at her water-stained skirt . |
| 8 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 9 | Laura stared down at her clasped hands . |
| 10 | She sat down awkwardly on one of the chairs , feeling highly incongruous in her black dress , which she had been obliged to put back on that morning , and looked down at her stiletto-clad feet . |
| 11 | Isabel glanced down at her injured finger . |
| 12 | He stared down at her semi-nude body . |
| 13 | Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh . |
| 14 | It amazed her , as she stared down at her right hand , that , while loving Naylor with every part of her being , she could have lashed out at him so violently . |
| 15 | Caro looked down at her battered pumps and wished she 'd remembered to change them . |
| 16 | She looked down at her frayed jeans and dirty trainers : the spongy shoes were full of water and squelched whenever she walked . |
| 17 | He looked down at her flaming hair and beige , naked body and whispered , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 18 | She used to walk with two sticks , but fell down at her 90th birthday party when she stumbled over a low table and broke her hip again . |
| 19 | Marion looked down at her low-heeled patent leather pumps and sighed . |
| 20 | Marion sipped her punch and looked down at her new dress . |
| 21 | Roman glanced down at her still figure , his face in shadow . |
| 22 | ‘ Shameless , ’ he teased thickly , lifting his mouth for a moment to gaze darkly down at her rapt face . |
| 23 | He looked down at her angry face and burst into laughter . |
| 24 | ‘ My pure angel , ’ he breathed raggedly when , quite some minutes later , he pulled back and looked down at her beautiful face , at her cheeks made pink by his kisses . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't dress up at all , ’ Belinda responded , glancing down at her pink linen trousers and cream blouse . |
| 26 | He looked down at her astonished face with darkly angled brows . |
| 27 | " Oh come now , dear , you ca n't fool an old hand like me " She smiled complacently down at her swiftly-flashing knitting needles . |
| 28 | ‘ I need to be thin , to do justice to Monsieur Félix 's clothes , ’ Alice said , glancing down at her low-waisted frock of indigo-blue jersey . |
| 29 | She sat very upright and looked down at her green lap and the bronze toes of her boots , and the brown silk handbag on a gilt chain which contained a handkerchief , a phial of sal volatile and some of Aunt Emily 's calling cards in a mother of pearl case , since she had none of her own . |
| 30 | Looking down at her red shoes , she said , ‘ You 're right . |