Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 2 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 3 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 4 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 5 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |