Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 2 | Even Granny was shocked when Grimma looked at her with a face from which all the colour had drained away . |
| 3 | Nick Stanton gazed at her with an uncustomary scowl . |
| 4 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 5 | Ilbrec was silent at that , and Ruth looked at him with a quick tightening of anxiety . |
| 6 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 7 | Eve looked at her with a measured glance . |
| 8 | Alain looked at her with a great deal of indulgence , but Jenna was busily reorganising her thoughts . |
| 9 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 10 | Marks looked at him with a speculative eye . |
| 11 | Newman looked at him with no particular liking . |
| 12 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 13 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 14 | Ernie looked at him with a sheepish grin . |
| 15 | Cathy looked at them with a mixture of envy and doubt . |
| 16 | Allen looked at her with a puzzled air ; this was not the girl he had taught to shoot with his bow , and who had watched swine on the Ridgery . |
| 17 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 18 | Claire looked at her with a puzzled frown , which quickly cleared . |
| 19 | Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression . |
| 20 | Wycliffe looked at her with a bland expression but said nothing . |
| 21 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 22 | Natasha gazed at her with an expression in which caution and disdain were perfectly balanced . |
| 23 | Louise looked at him with a mock stern expression . |
| 24 | Signe looked at me with a wide-eyed look of sadness . |
| 25 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 26 | Rickie chanted at me with a sudden and extraordinary vindictiveness . |
| 27 | Glyn looked at her with a good deal of accusation . |
| 28 | We 've got a fine little school here , I 'm sure you 'd agree — ’ Hilary Frome looked at him with a light of pure idealism in his eyes , but he drew the line at assenting — ‘ but what 's going to count in the years ahead is what we 've got up top . |