Example sentences of "at [pron] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And then we have the third issue which is site selection and here they are at one with the local communities when they say this particular er selected site has been driven by economic consideration and not environmental consideration . |
| 4 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 5 | As Molly put down the telephone , she saw Jacqueline , her mouth full of dough , staring at her with the large , accusing eyes of an Oxfam poster . |
| 6 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 9 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 10 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 11 | The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula . |
| 12 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 13 | Far more pertinently , the parallels with what is happening now scream at anyone with the slightest sense of history . |