Example sentences of "[vb past] at [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 2 | She dabbed at hers with a clean corner of napkin , laughing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 5 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 9 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 10 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 11 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 12 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 13 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 14 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 15 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 16 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 17 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 18 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 19 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 20 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 21 | He stared at her with a dead-pan face and she was not sure whether he was serious or not . |
| 22 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 23 | The men were gratified and returned his greeting , but stared at me with a mixture of impudence and hostility . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rickie chanted at me with a sudden and extraordinary vindictiveness . |
| 26 | Allen looked at her with a puzzled air ; this was not the girl he had taught to shoot with his bow , and who had watched swine on the Ridgery . |
| 27 | Eve looked at her with a measured glance . |
| 28 | He looked at her with a smile on his wide , open face . |
| 29 | He looked at her with a frown . |
| 30 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |