Example sentences of "at [pers pn] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She finished her drink , smiling at him over the rim of the cup . |
| 32 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 33 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 34 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 35 | ‘ It 's hot , ’ she murmured , peeping suggestively up at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 36 | She narrowed her eyes at him over the coffee-table . |
| 37 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 38 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 39 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 40 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 41 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 42 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 43 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 44 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 45 | Ashley looked at him over the rim of her cup . |