Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did she imagine it or did a head of bronze curls pop round the door , and were a pair of peacock-blue eyes gazing at her with implacable hatred ? |
| 2 | She walked back into the house , and Piers glanced at her with one raised eyebrow . |
| 3 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 4 | There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands . |
| 5 | Nikos looked at him with scorn , scooped up the remaining papers and went out . |
| 6 | Piers looked at them with a frown . |
| 7 | Piers looked at her with interest . |
| 8 | His voice was quiet , matter-of-fact and kind , and his eyes smiled at her with interest and curiosity , she thought , beyond the mere charm he must use by native grace upon all who came near him and were weaker than he . |
| 9 | To look across and see that gorgeous smile , find those brilliant eyes burning at you with desire and love , instead of derision and mockery . |
| 10 | The other officers looked at him with loathing . |
| 11 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 12 | The Keeper of Secrets cut at him with its great claw . |
| 13 | Female slaves mopped at them with cloths of unbleached fabric , and Alexei took one out of a pair of slim hands and towelled himself dry . |
| 14 | The other girls looked at her with dislike but Paula ignored them . |
| 15 | The girls looked at him with wide-eyed hurt . |
| 16 | Diana was now more mature and relaxed and her sisters ' friends looked at her with new eyes . |
| 17 | The humans looked at me with big round eyes . |
| 18 | The two boys gazed at her with such blazing admiration that she came close to blushing . |
| 19 | As he trotted his horse forward over the intervening space Lieutenant Stapleton noticed two giant white faces smiling at him with understanding and compassion . |