Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife . |
| 2 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 3 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 4 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 7 | Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile . |
| 8 | ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile . |
| 9 | He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes . |
| 10 | Guido took a mouthful of his drink and paused in what he was saying , looking up at her with an amused , curious glint in his eye . |
| 11 | Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face . |
| 12 | This was my cue but Alec was looking across at me with a grin that was too eager and I faltered . |
| 13 | As he was moving away , he paused , and looking round at us with a smile on his face , he said , ‘ Oh yes , and a direct hit on the newly-dug shithouse … shit everywhere ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 15 | She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure . |
| 16 | It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze . |
| 17 | He glanced down at her with a slight smile . |
| 18 | Dane glanced down at her with a frown . |
| 19 | Theda glanced up at him with an amused look . |
| 20 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 21 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 22 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 23 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 24 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 25 | ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity . |
| 26 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 27 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
| 28 | Hari asked softly and Edward looked down at her with a shrewdness that disconcerted her . |
| 29 | Giles looked down at her with a rueful smile . |
| 30 | He looked down at it with a horrified surprise . |