Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It 's starting to get dark — a small bright star twinkles cheekily at me from between the chimneys . |
2 | A large blonde girl waved at me from across the room , spilling a large part of her drink down the back of another woman 's dress at the same time . |
3 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
4 | There were slivers of glass sparkling up at them from among the brambles . |
5 | In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived . |
6 | Weirdest of all is the studio , in which a Madame Tussaud 's waxwork stares out of the half-light at you from behind the control-room glass . |
7 | She was about to return to her own chamber to put her clothes away again when an urgent hiss came at her from down the gallery . |
8 | Hoomey was looking at her from under the seat in front . |
9 | He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’ |
10 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
11 | Her father grinned at her from over the rim of his spectacles . |
12 | The wino leaned and leered at her from behind the cover of the chip man 's mighty stomach . |
13 | ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley . |
14 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
15 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
16 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
17 | Golden eyes looked at him from among the leaves of the yellow maple tree where Peach sat cleverly camouflaged . |
18 | The dark suited security guard glowered at him from within the bright interior of the shop . |
19 | In fact we used to send him up something rotten , Angela Scoular and I. We 'd make funny faces at him from behind the camera , trying to make him corpse . |
20 | She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses . |
21 | Six or seven of us were spread out on the grass toasting ourselves when we gradually became aware of a small knot of people gazing at us from across the field through a gap in the hedge , a knot which grew steadily larger all the time . |
22 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
23 | We felt them looking at us from behind the lace and from the shadowy hallways , peering through their caterpillar curtains at these strangers with clean shoes and light , impractical clothes . |
24 | Suddenly an evil face , more like an animal than a man , looked at us from behind the rock . |