Example sentences of "was [verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
2 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
3 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
4 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
5 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
6 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
7 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
8 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
9 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
10 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
11 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
12 | As I left , Estella 's lovely face looked at me in wonder , but Miss Havisham was staring at me with a mixture of pity and guilt . |
13 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
14 | Nadine was staring at him with a fascination entirely disproportionate to his remark , a fascination , indeed , bordering on transfixion . |
15 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
16 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |