Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 2 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 3 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 4 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 6 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 7 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 8 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 9 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 10 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 11 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 12 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 13 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 14 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 15 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 16 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 17 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 18 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 19 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 20 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 21 | Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before . |
| 22 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 23 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 24 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 26 | and she said I do n't like to tell time , she kept going , looking at me with a ca n't believe how stupid you are |
| 27 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 28 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 29 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 30 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |