Example sentences of "[v-ing] at thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no what she 's talking about cos I ca n't hear through the glass , but she keeps laughing at things he says . |
| 2 | Laughing at things or sitting together round the table and my dad making jokes and … |
| 3 | She do n't help out or nothing — she just sits on the bench , or wanders round looking at things , but I think she likes it . |
| 4 | That was certainly one way of looking at things . |
| 5 | The more we soak up their way of looking at things , their method of understanding , the more we shall get . |
| 6 | He is simply looking at things from Abraham 's point of view . |
| 7 | Mr Kinnock and Mr Smith may not do much to frighten us , but by the system of patronage — some would call it deference or sycophancy — which operates in this country , we will find , overnight , that respectability somehow has a new meaning : that judges , policemen , journalists , school teachers , even the local sanitary inspectors or environmental health officers , suddenly start looking at things in a different way . |
| 8 | Try looking at things from a different viewpoint . |
| 9 | ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’ |
| 10 | Looking at things the other way around , it might seem that if selection of new books could be carried out thoroughly , taking proper account of demand , and if proper weeding and replacement procedures could be instituted , stock revision would not be necessary at all . |
| 11 | It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’ |
| 12 | Sadler was sensitive to what he called ‘ the great stir of thought ’ which had disturbed ‘ the traditional ways of looking at things ’ , and had affected all classes . |
| 13 | But whatever , it 's got to be different , a totally fresh way of looking at things . |
| 14 | Specifically Polish ways of looking at things — their fear of the Germans , contempt for the Russians , their intensely inward looking , ghetto-like literary culture , their almost unbounded and largely unfounded faith in the Catholic Church — are all manifestations of nationalism wrought by alien rule . |
| 15 | The one reduces theology to the Christian 's ‘ way of looking at things ’ , makes evangelism just an open-ended dialogue and articulates faith in a way which previous generations would have seen as a denial of the faith , in need of an answer itself . |
| 16 | Members believe that anyone outside their particular way of looking at things is not a Christian at all — and this applies to groups such as Quakers . |
| 17 | He crowed suddenly up at the drawings tacked on the wall , then at other times was perfectly quiet and lovely , just looking at things , motes of light , bits of fluff , a pencil . |
| 18 | I now say : that to talk about perceived-as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . |
| 19 | We can explain , correctly or incorrectly , our would-be beliefs on looking at things by reference to presentation appearances , but to try to explain them by reference to perceived-as appearances is to try to explain them by reference to themselves . |
| 20 | Lord Robert Cecil detected the same change when he deplored the tariff reformers ' " whole way of looking at things . |
| 21 | Looking at things from this viewpoint , it is perhaps surprising that the " invisible hand " theorem works at all . |
| 22 | But for the moment we shall go along with this way of looking at things . |
| 23 | In 1955 Minton agreed to take part in a radio programme , Designing a Wallpaper , as part of a series called ‘ Looking at Things ’ . |
| 24 | But you 're looking at things on the top floor where they 're not squashed — not to the same extent at any rate-so … they would look … bigger than normal … yes ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not much of one for looking at things , ’ Harrison said and Hope 's heart went out to him . |
| 26 | They trundled about the room looking at things and then sat behind one another on his bed and played train carriages . |
| 27 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 28 | Gently we tried to talk him round to looking at things in another way . |
| 29 | He licks butter and flakes of croissant off his finger , and turns to the Michelin , impatient to get started on actually looking at things . |
| 30 | We have our own style and ideas and ways of looking at things . ’ |