Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 2 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 3 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 4 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 5 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 6 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 7 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 8 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 9 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 10 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 11 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 12 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 13 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 14 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 15 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 16 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 17 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 18 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 19 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 20 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 21 | Look at them with a view to : |
| 22 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 23 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 24 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 25 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 26 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 27 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 28 | He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire . |
| 29 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 30 | You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag . |