Example sentences of "she [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gazed at him through her thick lashes . |
| 2 | She gazed at him with a worried frown . |
| 3 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
| 4 | As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back . |
| 5 | She gazed at him in surprise . |
| 6 | She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home . |
| 7 | She gazed at him in confusion . |
| 8 | She gazed at him in silence until he said , ‘ You 're very beautiful , you know , and you 'll grow more beautiful with the years . ’ |
| 9 | She gazed at him in blank astonishment . |
| 10 | She gazed at him in horror . |
| 11 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 12 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |
| 13 | She gazed at it for a moment . |
| 14 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 15 | She yowled at him in complaint . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 18 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 19 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 20 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 21 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 22 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 23 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 24 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 25 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 26 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |
| 29 | He was pleased to see her looking less pale than when he had last seen her , and she grinned at him with something of her old cheerfulness . |
| 30 | A sort of meteorological ‘ up yours ’ She grinned at him with deadpan eyes . |