Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] with an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 2 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 3 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 4 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 5 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 6 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 7 | On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . |
| 8 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 9 | The Doctor looked at her with an air of hesitant concern . |
| 10 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |
| 11 | He stood and looked at her with an expression of total innocence . |
| 12 | The other girl looked at her with an expression of dismay . |
| 13 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 14 | The old gentleman looked at him with an expression of dislike . |
| 15 | She looked at him with an air of apology . |
| 16 | Burger looked at him with an odd expression . |
| 17 | She looked at me with an elegance of expression that is difficult to describe . |
| 18 | When he had finished the portrait he looked at it with an expression of satisfaction and said to Indenbaum : ‘ There — that is for you ’ . |
| 19 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 20 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 21 | Nick Stanton gazed at her with an uncustomary scowl . |
| 22 | Natasha gazed at her with an expression in which caution and disdain were perfectly balanced . |
| 23 | His grandmother was clutching his arm , smiling at him with an almost girlish pleasure . |