Example sentences of "at she [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
2 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
3 | The solicitor glared at her over the top of his spectacles , unamused . |
4 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
5 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
6 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |
7 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
8 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
9 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
10 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
11 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
12 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
13 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
14 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
15 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
16 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
19 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
20 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
21 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
22 | The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English . |
23 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
24 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
25 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
26 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
27 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
28 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
29 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
30 | Looking at her across the table , it was hard to imagine that once he had thought her the most exotic extraordinary thing in the entire world . |