Example sentences of "she [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She gazed at him with a worried frown . |
2 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
3 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
4 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
5 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
6 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
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 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
10 | She looked at me with a reflective , appraising look . |
11 | She looked at me with a sudden hope . |
12 | She looked at me with a smile that implied fusion . |
13 | She looked at me with a defiant grin and a twinkle in her eye . |
14 | She looked at me with an elegance of expression that is difficult to describe . |
15 | She looked at him with a challenging stare . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal . |
18 | She looked at him with a feeling of panic . |
19 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
20 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
21 | She looked at him with a gleam of defiance . |
22 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | She looked at him with an air of apology . |
25 | 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 . |