Example sentences of "[v-ing] at him [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes .
2 ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes .
3 We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) .
4 He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance .
5 Tess followed him and stood there staring at him with dry eyes .
6 When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ?
7 Defensively she pushed his hand away , staring at him with dark-pupilled eyes , the clear grey irises ringed with silver .
8 Then she was silent , staring at him with horrified eyes .
9 Fran broke off , staring at him with frightened eyes .
10 She pressed her lips together , glancing at him with bleak eyes , hardly seeing Luke at all through the blur of tears .
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