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 . |