Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She turned , hearing the stillness that followed the rustling of his movements , and he was standing in the doorway , looking at her with a strange , soft look of mingled reluctance and resolution . |
| 32 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 33 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 34 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 35 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 36 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 37 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 38 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 39 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 40 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 43 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 44 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 45 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 46 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 47 | Look at them with a view to : |
| 48 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 49 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
| 50 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 51 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 52 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 53 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 54 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 55 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 56 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 57 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 58 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 59 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 60 | He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire . |