Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 3 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 4 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 5 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 6 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 7 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 8 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 9 | How dared he look at her like that ? |
| 10 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 11 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 12 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
| 13 | He looked at me with yellow feral eyes . |
| 14 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 15 | He looked at me with some care . |
| 16 | He looked at her through narrowed eyes , then he stood up . |
| 17 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 18 | He looked at her with sardonic amusement which deepened when she quickly looked away . |
| 19 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 20 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
| 21 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 22 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 23 | He looked at her with big , brown , sad eyes . |
| 24 | He looked at her with hunted eyes . |
| 25 | He looked at her with troubled eyes , but she could not know how much his answer was going to hurt . |
| 26 | He looked at her with slow deliberation , and she felt her breathing deepen . |
| 27 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 28 | He looked at her with those bleak eyes . |
| 29 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 30 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |