Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ?
2 She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow .
3 Visiting players , Raimundo , the grooms and Alejandro looked at her with ill-concealed lust , but her dead-pan hauteur and Señor Gracias ' large , looming presence kept them at bay .
4 Morley looked at her with genuine concern .
5 Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction
6 Hari looked at him with raised eyebrows .
7 Edward looked at her with grey eyes like Tilda 's , but without much expectation from life .
8 She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's .
9 Ryker looked at her with sheer hatred .
10 Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest .
11 Wilson stared at me with those piercing eyes .
12 For a moment Theda looked at her with hurt in her eyes , a little puzzled .
13 The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement .
14 Suddenly , Damian turned his dark head to look at her with narrowed eyes .
15 The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers .
16 Andrus looked at him with undisguised fury .
17 Jordan looked at him with humorous eyes .
18 Sarella looked at him with defiant eyes .
19 Rune glared at her with savage eyes .
20 When the telephone rang , Crosland leapt at it with unconcealed anxiety .
21 The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky .
22 Now Wolff looked at her with sardonic amusement .
23 Jose stared at her with greedy eyes and touched her and muttered suggestions of which no translation was necessary .
24 But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I do n't know thwarted love .
25 ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all .
26 As Ranald looked at him with some concern , the old man waved him off .
27 Murtach looked at him with raised eyebrow .
28 His eyes were on her lips and Jenna looked at him with wide , worried eyes .
29 The man looked at her with sudden amusement as a penny dropped .
30 The boxer romped down the drive after me as I was leaving and the old man looked at him with undisguised admiration .
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