Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 2 | To feel him touching her , to see him looking at her with his heart washed clean of all the old hatred . |
| 3 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 4 | He stabbed at it with his talons and beak . |
| 5 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 6 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 7 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 8 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 9 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 10 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 11 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 14 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 15 | His collarbone ached , and he dug at it with his good arm , massaging the stiffness with his fingers . |
| 16 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |
| 17 | ‘ You will not , ’ he barked at her with barely controlled fury . |
| 18 | Cursing , he thrust at it with his elbow and the glass shattered in fragments around him . |
| 19 | He glanced at her with a great deal of arrogance . |
| 20 | A figure popped out of a doorway to Alexei 's left , and he cut at it with his sword and ran on . |
| 21 | He slapped at it with his other hand , but it was beneath his thumbnail before he could get to it . |
| 22 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 23 | He looked at me with twinkling pity for my lack of understanding of the really serious things in life . |
| 24 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
| 25 | He looked at me with amusement . |
| 26 | He looked at me with joy . |
| 27 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 28 | He looked at me with a gentle , sad expression on his face . |
| 29 | Infuriated , he looked at me with a hard , steady stare . |
| 30 | He looked at me with a sense of utter incredulity and answered : ‘ I do n't know how he thinks . ’ |