Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the medics attending him looked up at me . |
| 2 | He beamed back at them . |
| 3 | She threw him a kiss as he winked up at her , smiling . |
| 4 | He gazed up at her , huge brown eyes unblinking , and made little , soft dove , like noises she believed designed to encourage her . |
| 5 | He gazed up at her with eyes much , much older than his face . |
| 6 | Her heart was thudding as she persisted , watched the narrowing of his eyes as he gazed down at her . |
| 7 | Her anguish must have penetrated his obvious antagonism as , standing back , he gazed down at her , the prepossessing lines of his face softening slightly as a reluctant smile lifted the corners of his mouth . |
| 8 | He gazed down at her , his lips thinned to a narrow line . |
| 9 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 10 | He gazed down at her then and she felt the brief , searing taste of his mouth on hers . |
| 11 | He gazed down at her almost fiercely , his voice breaking as he told her , ‘ I can not endure another day like the last two weeks . ’ |
| 12 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 13 | He gazed down at her , his eyes incredibly blue , glittering with the desire . |
| 14 | And , while I 'm on the subject of fighting off unwanted intruders , ’ he added , the hard planes of his face tightening as he gazed down at her , ‘ I 'm not prepared to allow that man Dunton to mess around with my wife any longer ! |
| 15 | Something which ignited in those brown depths as he gazed down at her . |
| 16 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 17 | His expression was inscrutable as he gazed back at her . |
| 18 | He peered down at me and scratched his head as he replaced his cap on his bald head . |
| 19 | He was already half-way down the ladder when he shouted back at me , ‘ Do n't you want to come along , sister ? ’ |
| 20 | He listened in rapt concentration as Mr Mercer described how one soldier shot off his leg and threatened to kill him until he shouted back at him ‘ in best barrack room invective ’ . |
| 21 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 22 | A second or two later though and she realised that she must have been mistaken , for his look was suddenly more mocking than anything when , ‘ In a word , ’ he lobbed back at her , ‘ fantastic . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's suddenly urgent ? ’ he slammed back at her — and Fabia could cheerfully have hit him . |
| 24 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
| 25 | He frowned down at her as she lay back self-consciously against the pillows . |
| 26 | Plunging his hands deeply into the pockets of his dark tailored suit , he frowned down at her from beneath his heavy brows , the lines of his face taut with strain and tension . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I do n't , ’ he flared back at her . |
| 28 | He grinned down at me . |
| 29 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't immediately obvious to me , ’ Jenna said demurely , and he grinned down at her before looking seriously into her eyes . |