Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
| 2 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 3 | I look at him with about the dirtiest look I can muster . |
| 4 | I looked at her with affection and Tremayne patted my shoulder and told them I would be staying on as arranged to write his book . |
| 5 | I looked at her with a new respect . |
| 6 | I looked at it with my mind 's eye and I thought , ‘ ’ What can this be ? ’ |
| 7 | I went at it with pleasure , front-pointing happily and resting on my ski poles , watching Liena 's progress with concern . |
| 8 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 9 | Shall I strike at it with my partisan ? |
| 10 | He turned , waiting for me , and I ran at him with my sword . |
| 11 | Cooper said : ‘ Would you be happy if someone jumped at you with two feet ? ’ |
| 12 | And for all of us , the short , sharp shock of illogical fear ( the brakes temporarily fail on your car , or someone comes at you with a knife ) is helpful . |
| 13 | I jumped at him with my sword , and a second later he fell dead in the doorway without a word or a sound . |
| 14 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 15 | She gazed at him with a worried frown . |
| 16 | She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’ |
| 17 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 18 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |
| 19 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 20 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 21 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 22 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 23 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 24 | You 're very beautiful , very provocative , when you look at me with those flirting eyes . ’ |
| 25 | Thus Betelgeux in Orion , one of the brightest stars in the sky , is clearly orange-red , but Mu Cephei , in the far north , shows almost no colour at all until you look at it with binoculars , when it gives the impression of a glowing coal , and earns its nickname of ‘ the Garnet Star ’ . |
| 26 | It is no good insisting that , so long as you look at it with your eyes closed , a pig 's ear is a silk purse after all . |
| 27 | Would you work at it with other women , or are you a loner in that respect ? |
| 28 | Who stare at us with incredulous scorn . |
| 29 | He was pleased to see her looking less pale than when he had last seen her , and she grinned at him with something of her old cheerfulness . |
| 30 | A sort of meteorological ‘ up yours ’ She grinned at him with deadpan eyes . |