Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] with [det] " 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 The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror .
3 She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement .
7 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 .
8 He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention .
9 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 .
10 Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment .
11 ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all .
12 ‘ I 've never known such a miserable bride , ’ she went on , standing back and looking at me with some affection , but more disapproval .
13 When other people made a fuss of him , he hardly bothered with them , preferring to go over to wherever I might be and just sit there looking at me with those eyes .
14 And then , ‘ Oh , eat your lunch and stop looking at me with those great spaniel eyes .
15 Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work .
16 He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness .
17 She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's .
18 Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace .
19 Quigley gave what I can only describe as an eldritch screech and came at me with both arms , legs and the front bit of his head .
20 I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol .
21 No man could speak with such passionate urgency , look at her with such naked yearning , and not mean what he was saying .
22 No , no , do n't interrupt me and look at me with those wild eyes .
23 You 're very beautiful , very provocative , when you look at me with those flirting eyes . ’
24 Look at him with that ball .
25 Look at him with that ball .
26 What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain .
27 He would simply look at her with that hard mask and feel nothing .
28 He would just look at her with those piercing eyes and make her feel as vulnerable as she was beginning to realise she was .
29 Never again did he remember going at anything with such concentration .
30 When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ?
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