Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rubbing his glasses clean , he peered intently over at me through the thin rain . |
| 32 | The woman smiled and nodded at me through the noise that made a surrounding silence . |
| 33 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 34 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 35 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 36 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 37 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 38 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 39 | He came forward at me through the smoke and he was n't smiling . |
| 40 | Lineker says : ‘ It really started , if Graham 's honest , when he had a dig at me about the Republic of Ireland game at Wembley , when I did a piece with one of the newspapers saying I was a bit tired . |
| 41 | ‘ Graham was not happy about that and had a dig at me in the press . |
| 42 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
| 43 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 44 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 45 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 46 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
| 47 | Why , people wave at me in the streets ! ’ |
| 48 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 49 | Nor do I feel like setting myself up as an Aunt Sally just waiting for all those girls to throw themselves at me in the attempt to knock me off my perch ! ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 51 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 52 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 53 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 54 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 55 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 56 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 57 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 58 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 59 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 60 | Before I could reply , she 'd whisked off , running up the aisle after the last leaver , waving her little red hat at me from the doorway like a rallying signal . |