Example sentences of "at her from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brest ’ stared up at her from the pavement . |
| 2 | Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face . |
| 3 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 4 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 5 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 6 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 7 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 8 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 9 | An ugly black dog barked harshly at her from the basement patio of the house next door . |
| 10 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 11 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 12 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 13 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 14 | A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep . |
| 15 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 16 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 17 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |
| 18 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 19 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 20 | She cracked eggs into a frying pan and stood over them while they cooked , wincing as hot fat spat at her from the pan . |
| 21 | She felt again the presence of the wife , looking kindly and securely at her from the photograph ; do n't resent me , said Helen , I am really neither here nor there , I very much doubt if I signify , you need n't mind . |
| 22 | A fist lashed out at her from the whiteness . |
| 23 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 24 | He glanced up at her from the bottom of the ladder . |
| 25 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 26 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 27 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 28 | Torn Sunday colour supplements made eyes at her from the railings . |
| 29 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 30 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |