Example sentences of "at [pers pn] 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 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 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 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 8 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 9 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 10 | The barmaid took a swing at him with the dreaded spatula . |
| 11 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |