Example sentences of "she [verb] 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 While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ .
15 She beamed at him over the rim of her glass .
16 She yowled at him in complaint .
17 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 .
18 She peered at him through the semi-darkness .
19 She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing .
20 She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head .
21 She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope .
22 I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity .
23 They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out .
24 She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me .
25 She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock .
26 She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge .
27 She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned .
28 Why was she looking at me like that ?
29 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 .
30 She exploded at me in the hospital .
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