Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 2 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 3 | He has to look at everything from an international perspective . |
| 4 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 6 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 7 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 8 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 9 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 10 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 11 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 12 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 13 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 14 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 15 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 16 | Viewers , when presented with a shot in which the subject is seen looking at something off the screen , will assume that the next shot will show whatever it was that the person was looking at . |
| 17 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 18 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 19 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 20 | Guido had turned to glance at her with a look of mocking distaste . |
| 21 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 22 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 23 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 24 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 25 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 26 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 27 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 28 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 29 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 30 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |