Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 2 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 3 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 4 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 5 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 6 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 7 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 8 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 9 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 10 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 11 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 12 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 13 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 14 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 15 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 16 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
| 17 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 18 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
| 19 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 20 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |