Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 2 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 3 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 4 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 5 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 6 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 7 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 8 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 9 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 10 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 11 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 13 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 14 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 15 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 16 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 17 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 18 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 19 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 20 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 21 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 22 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 23 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 24 | The bear roared at him with fury , its black muzzle and huge jaws covered in a thick white froth . |
| 25 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 26 | She banged the door , pushing at it with her foot because her hands were occupied . |
| 27 | ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so . |
| 28 | Gourmets lured them to piles of turnips , then shot at them with duck-guns . |
| 29 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 30 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |