Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 32 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 33 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 34 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 35 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 36 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 37 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 38 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 39 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 40 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 41 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 42 | Elinor was looking at him with what might have been respect . |
| 43 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 44 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 45 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 46 | You 'll have to ask him , ’ she said , looking at him with delight . |
| 47 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 48 | Her arm was draped elegantly across his shoulders , and she was looking at him with eyes like headlights , as though she were starving and he were a cream cake . |
| 49 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 50 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 51 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 52 | She shook her head free of his grip , and sat further away on the sofa , looking at him with detachment . |
| 53 | And Matey badly needed help ; indeed , she was looking at him with something like approval . |
| 54 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 55 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 56 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 57 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 58 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 59 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 60 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |