Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like a mugger you leap out at me from the dark , and my rights as a woman are violated by your obscene masculinity ! |
| 6 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 7 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A wee grey woman wearing a headscarf peered out at me from the end of the bus queue . |
| 10 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 11 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 12 | The Doctor , in top hat and frock coat , looked confidently out at me from the label as I pulled out the cork and took a sniff . |
| 13 | The other nods at me from the comfort of his cracked-leather chair . |
| 14 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 15 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 16 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 17 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 18 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 19 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 20 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 21 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 22 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 23 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 24 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 25 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 26 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 27 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 28 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 29 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 30 | ‘ I think we could sit down now , ’ Charlotte said in her clear voice , smiling at them from the door , and they followed her into the dining room . |