Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 2 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 3 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 4 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 5 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 6 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 7 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 8 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 9 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 10 | The Collector had pulled a grey handkerchief from his pocket to mop his brow and was gazing at it with pleasure , thinking again that he was a simple man at heart . |
| 11 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 12 | ‘ He was looking at me with his eyes just flickering with fear . |
| 13 | But she was looking at me with simple , concerned inquiry . |
| 14 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 15 | He was looking at me with his head to one side . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He does n't , eh ? ’ said the tramp , who was looking at her with great interest . |
| 18 | However , the marquis was looking at her with affection and she took courage in both hands . |
| 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 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 22 | He was looking at her with frank enjoyment that seemed untainted by any sort of guilt . |
| 23 | He was looking at her with amusement , and a sort of hungry satisfaction . |
| 24 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 25 | He was looking at her with frowning concentration . |
| 26 | He was looking at her with faint amusement in his eyes , one eyebrow slightly raised , and she became aware that he was quite used to this reaction from women to his undoubted charisma . |
| 27 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 28 | But Wolff was looking at her with frank and breathless admiration . |
| 29 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 30 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |