Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at her with a new respect . |
| 2 | She gazed at him with a worried frown . |
| 3 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 4 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 5 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 6 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 7 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 8 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 9 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 10 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 11 | She looked at me with a reflective , appraising look . |
| 12 | She looked at me with a sudden hope . |
| 13 | She looked at me with a smile that implied fusion . |
| 14 | She looked at me with a defiant grin and a twinkle in her eye . |
| 15 | She looked at me with an elegance of expression that is difficult to describe . |
| 16 | She looked at him with a challenging stare . |
| 17 | She looked at him with a derisive little smile — the sort of smile a lamb might bestow on a wolf promising that being eaten alive wo n't hurt . |
| 18 | She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal . |
| 19 | She looked at him with a feeling of panic . |
| 20 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 21 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 22 | She looked at him with a gleam of defiance . |
| 23 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 24 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 25 | She looked at him with an air of apology . |
| 26 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 27 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 28 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 29 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 30 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |