Example sentences of "at her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The solicitor glared at her over the top of his spectacles , unamused . |
| 3 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 4 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 5 | Matthew was smiling at her over the edge of his glass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He looked mischievously at her over the top of his paper . |
| 9 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 10 | Her father was frowning at her over the rim of his glass . |
| 11 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 12 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 13 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 14 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 20 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All the time those steady , golden eyes had fascinated her — and now they were looking steadily at her along the barrel of a gun . |
| 24 | ’ Her husband gazed at her across the body . |
| 25 | He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar . |
| 26 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ben stood staring at her across the garden , a puzzled , worried expression on his face . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Madame Gebrec gazed earnestly at her across the table . |