Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 2 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 3 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 4 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 5 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 6 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 9 | He stared at her with a dead-pan face and she was not sure whether he was serious or not . |
| 10 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 11 | Rickie chanted at me with a sudden and extraordinary vindictiveness . |
| 12 | Glyn looked at her with a good deal of accusation . |
| 13 | He looked at her with a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 14 | He looked at her with a pre-occupied air before he recognized her , perhaps because she had put up her hair rather severely deliberately into a tight knot on the back of her head . |
| 15 | Alain looked at her with a great deal of indulgence , but Jenna was busily reorganising her thoughts . |
| 16 | Eve looked at her with a measured glance . |
| 17 | Wycliffe looked at her with a bland expression but said nothing . |
| 18 | I looked at her with a new respect . |
| 19 | Instead , his dark eyes just looked at her with a haunting intentness as she ran away from him . |
| 20 | He looked at her with a sombre expression . |
| 21 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Claire looked at her with a puzzled frown , which quickly cleared . |
| 24 | Newman looked at him with no particular liking . |
| 25 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She looked at him with a challenging stare . |
| 28 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 29 | Wycliffe looked at him with a vague expression . |
| 30 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |