Example sentences of "at [pers pn] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 4 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 7 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 8 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 9 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Grimma stared at her with the kind of expression reserved for people who turn out , against all expectation , to have interesting and secret histories . |
| 15 | Maggie looked at him with the light of love as she kissed him good night . |
| 16 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 17 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 18 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 19 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 20 | Maura looked at him with the arrogance of youth . |
| 21 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 22 | In the centre there Priam sits on an altar , a huge tripod behind , and reaches in supplication to Neoptolemos who strikes at him with the corpse of his grandson not saved by Andromache 's effort . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 25 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 26 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 27 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 28 | 1 held the metal box and chopped at him with the side of my hand , but it struck the sharp metal of the gun and I felt the flesh tear as one round fired . |
| 29 | Izzie glared at him with the same dark , foreign eyes as her father 's . |
| 30 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |