Example sentences of "at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 2 | Teddy looked at me with horror . |
| 3 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 4 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 5 | When I told Michael Quirke about Mammy Water , he came right back at me with Finiver , the local Lady of the Lake . |
| 6 | A big brown otter , cleverly mounted , looked up at me with bright eyes . |
| 7 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 8 | I was thinking of a little black cat gazing up at me with dim eyes ; Rozanov of I know not what — possibly Ulrike Meinhof . |
| 9 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 10 | He looked up at me with a scowl , a scowl of surprise . |
| 11 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 12 | He had shaken his bunch of keys at me with great seriousness . |
| 13 | You do not do me justice , my dallta , for what you do reflects on me also , and they laugh at me with you because you let a wee Campbell lassie put a petticoat on you ! ’ |
| 14 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 15 | The doctor looked at me with a disgruntled expression . |
| 16 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 17 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
| 18 | Michael looked at me with compassion . |
| 19 | Mark looked at me with wild surmise and then spoke in capitals : ‘ THE NORTH SHORE IS TWELVE VIOLENT MILES OF SURF . |
| 20 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 21 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 22 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 23 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 24 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 25 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 26 | He was leaning forward staring at me with his hands on his knees . |
| 27 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 28 | This time Alison refused the bait , merely gazing at me with her large bovine eyes . |
| 29 | An' there it stayed , starin' at me with those great lizard eyes , from start o' loadin' to t' finish of it . |
| 30 | He looked at me with twinkling pity for my lack of understanding of the really serious things in life . |