Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [pers pn] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 2 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 3 | Cocooned in noise , the hostile presence of the rest of the miners oppressing her , she felt fear thrusting in at her with the decibels of the freighter 's flight . |
| 4 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 5 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 6 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 7 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |