Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 2 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 3 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 4 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 5 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 6 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 7 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 8 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 9 | He looked at me with a gentle , sad expression on his face . |
| 10 | Infuriated , he looked at me with a hard , steady stare . |
| 11 | He looked at me with a sense of utter incredulity and answered : ‘ I do n't know how he thinks . ’ |
| 12 | He looked at me with a quizzical lift to his eyebrows . |
| 13 | He looked at her with a smile on his wide , open face . |
| 14 | He looked at her with a frown . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He looked at her with a hint of suspicion . |
| 17 | He looked at her with a sombre expression . |
| 18 | He looked at her with a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 19 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 20 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |
| 21 | When he had finished the portrait he looked at it with an expression of satisfaction and said to Indenbaum : ‘ There — that is for you ’ . |
| 22 | He stared at her with a dead-pan face and she was not sure whether he was serious or not . |
| 23 | 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 . |