Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 2 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 3 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 4 | Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’ |
| 5 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 6 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 7 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 8 | Neil Davidson , counsel for the Deans , said they denied allegations levelled at them by the shareholders , many of which can not be reported because of restrictions imposed by Lord Cullen . |
| 9 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
| 10 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 11 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
| 12 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 15 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 16 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
| 17 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 18 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 19 | Torn Sunday colour supplements made eyes at her from the railings . |
| 20 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 21 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 22 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 23 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 24 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 25 | Talk of this sort was mostly to raise morale , as McFarlane was at pains to say when his ‘ Secretary of State ’ remark was thrown back at him at the hearings . |
| 26 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 27 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 28 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 29 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 30 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |