Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.

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1 He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 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 .
4 She was looking up at me with an expression of concern .
5 Viola Machin , panting , looked hard at Hilda 's pert little face looking up at her with a twisted , triumphant smile .
6 ‘ That was my original intention , ’ Anya confesses , looking up at her with a rueful smile .
7 He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes .
8 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 .
9 Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face .
10 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 ! ’
11 She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure .
12 It was a large black dog with large orb-like eyes gazing up at him with a malevolent gaze .
13 He glanced down at her with a slight smile .
14 Dane glanced down at her with a frown .
15 Theda glanced up at him with an amused look .
16 Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives .
17 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 .
18 He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before .
19 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 .
20 She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery .
21 ‘ The Clay , ’ the boy answered him , staring back at him with a strange intensity .
22 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 .
23 Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown .
24 Hari asked softly and Edward looked down at her with a shrewdness that disconcerted her .
25 Giles looked down at her with a rueful smile .
26 He looked down at it with a horrified surprise .
27 The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try .
28 ‘ I need a swim , ’ he said with a rueful grin , levering himself upright and glancing down at her with a look which sent her senses spinning into chaos again .
29 Mitch surmised , glancing down at her with a grin .
30 He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face .
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