Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 2 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 3 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 4 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 5 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 8 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 9 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |
| 12 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 13 | Ivy was looking at him with a peculiar expression . |
| 14 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 20 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 21 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 22 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 28 | 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 ! ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |