Example sentences of "at [pers pn] with the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 2 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 3 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 4 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 5 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 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 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 8 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 9 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 10 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 11 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 12 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 13 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 14 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 15 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 16 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 17 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 18 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 19 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 20 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 21 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 22 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 23 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |