Example sentences of "grin at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 2 | Ace stuck out her tongue at Daak , who was grinning at her through the shuttle 's front window , but she doubted whether he could see her face inside the suit . |
| 3 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
| 6 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 7 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 8 | Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry . |
| 9 | They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles . |
| 10 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
| 11 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 12 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 13 | Paul Devraux grinned at him for a moment , then raised a cynical eyebrow . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 16 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 17 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |