Example sentences of "[verb] at by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all kinds of reasons are conventionally winked at by our good-natured policemen and traffic wardens . |
| 2 | Meeting Steve the stamp man from Surbiton or Billy from the back of beyond or travelling around attending street parties and generally being gawped at by the Press and the populace is not my idea of whooping it up . |
| 3 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 4 | Why this need to imagine it finished , installed , looked at by other eyes ? he wrote . |
| 5 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 6 | The A-level is also being looked at by the School Examinations and Assessment Council , but ideas are in still in the very early stages . |
| 7 | If you are able to find a literary agent who will take on your work , the process of having it looked at by publishers will be speeded up for you . |
| 8 | ‘ Being looked at by a bloke that 's saying nothing . ’ |
| 9 | The reading and writing of whole numbers was looked at by asking pupils to write in numerals a number presented in words . |
| 10 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 11 | To insert them , or any other filmed material , required telecine transfer — literally the cine projection of the film onto a small screen being looked at by a television camera . |
| 12 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 13 | A clock that 's going fast , looked at by someone whose mind is churning over faster by the same amount , seems to be going at the normal rate ! ’ |
| 14 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 15 | She would have liked to dissolve into him and become part of him , so that she could never be subject to his indifference , or even be looked at by him in any objective way . |
| 16 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 17 | This is a matter of major constitutional importance which will have to be looked at by the House of Lords and no doubt considered by this place in due course . |
| 18 | It was looked at by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State and was available to the Court of Appeal when the appeal was turned down . |
| 19 | On leaving the Service in August 1935 he spent several months looking around and also being looked at by the family of the lovely Ly , his Swiss wife , a scrutiny which was reciprocated when Ly had in turn , to be looked at by the swarm of Bennetts in Brisbane , Australia . |
| 20 | On leaving the Service in August 1935 he spent several months looking around and also being looked at by the family of the lovely Ly , his Swiss wife , a scrutiny which was reciprocated when Ly had in turn , to be looked at by the swarm of Bennetts in Brisbane , Australia . |
| 21 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 22 | I I I I know er it 's been looked at by the D T I but has it been looked at by the treasury itself ? |
| 23 | Victims of the black death — that 's one of the theories being looked at by archaeologists who 've dug up this mass grave . |
| 24 | He deserves contempt not respect and his ability to handle further cases as serious as this should be looked at by the Lord Chancellor 's office . |
| 25 | I am immediately introducing new measures to ensure that all high-risk premises , which include restaurants , will be looked at by some health officer every six months . ’ |
| 26 | It 's probably because I was getting looked at by erm a ginger haired boy |
| 27 | Otherwise , who else would subject themselves to being square-bashed , shouted at by petty officers , and made to do ghastly things in force ten gales ? |
| 28 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 29 | The book has explained that , having been a murderer of unreliables for the Republicans , he was shot at by a rival and went straight back to Glasgow . ) |
| 30 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |