Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 2 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 3 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 4 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 5 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 6 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 7 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |
| 8 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |