Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with [adj] " 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 thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 3 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 4 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 5 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 6 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 17 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 20 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 23 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 24 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 25 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 26 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 29 | He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes . |
| 30 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |