Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 2 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 3 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 8 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |