Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain .
2 Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table .
3 He looked at her with exasperation when she just gazed at him with wide deep blue eyes .
4 She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes .
5 He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers .
6 He would just look at her with those piercing eyes and make her feel as vulnerable as she was beginning to realise she was .
7 The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes .
8 ‘ I just saw the box of cigarettes lying there on the table , and everybody else smoking , and I just knew inside me with absolute certainty that I should smoke , too .
9 By the time he got to me he was n't ranting and raving , he just stared at me with mad eyes . ’
10 When the work goes to places where people have cancer , there 's no taboo at all , they just fall about you with open arms and say , ‘ How marvellous to be able to talk about it .
11 The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding .
12 The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’
13 No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection .
14 It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots .
15 Francis and Elaine , clutching each other 's hands , were also gazing at her with wide eyes .
16 Yes , but if you already have a Sun Alliance Personal Accident Policy , which was also offered to you with guaranteed acceptance , you will not be able to claim benefits under both Policies .
17 ‘ I see , ’ he said with a quick look at the clerk , who was now staring at them with both eyes well open .
18 Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace .
19 He would simply look at her with that hard mask and feel nothing .
20 If you run a dog-friendly establishment — or can recommend one — please write to us with full details .
21 The charge of indoctrination has been regularly levelled against it with great force , especially because of the holding of assemblies for worship which is still required by law .
22 When other people made a fuss of him , he hardly bothered with them , preferring to go over to wherever I might be and just sit there looking at me with those eyes .
23 He looked with amusement at her small , vivacious figure almost bouncing alongside him with effervescent high spirits .
24 Arrange one or two suitable shrubs that grow with a relaxed , arching habit , and then fill between them with large patches or drifts of herbaceous plants en masse .
25 Tess followed him and stood there staring at him with dry eyes .
26 Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms .
27 A Galk hit a Cun across the face and then tore into it with savage teeth .
28 It was a considerable risk ; he knew perfectly well that Graham Moloney would certainly disagree with him with some violence .
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