Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 2 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 3 | He looked at me with some care . |
| 4 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 5 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
| 6 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 7 | He looked at her with those bleak eyes . |
| 8 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
| 11 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't mean we should get to know each other — ’ She broke off , not sure what she did mean when he looked at her in such open invitation . |
| 13 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
| 14 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 15 | He stared at her in some perplexity . |
| 16 | He smiled at her with that lopsided grin and she was undone . |
| 17 | He smiled at her with such confidence that she felt comforted . |