Example sentences of "at her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stole covert glances at her across the table . |
| 32 | As it was , he clenched his fist and glared at her across the gulf that divided them . |
| 33 | Vitor said , climbing out to frown at her across the bonnet . |
| 34 | Vitor looked at her across the table . |
| 35 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 36 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
| 37 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 38 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 39 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 40 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
| 41 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |
| 42 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 43 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 44 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 45 | His last words , flung over his shoulder at her through the cold , stinging spray , were : |
| 46 | Elizabeth attempted to escape in the Isuzu , but crashed as her attacker hacked at her through the window . |
| 47 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 48 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 49 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 50 | He looked across at her through the frost and rose of dawn . |
| 51 | Today , when Florrie arrived at the corner-shop and rapped on the closed front door , Aunt Emily lifted the roller-blind and peered shortsightedly at her through the glass . |
| 52 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 53 | Ryker loomed at her through the flames and she hurled the water both at him and at the fire . |
| 54 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 55 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 56 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 57 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 58 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 59 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 60 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |