Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pron] [prep] the " 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 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
16 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
17 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
18 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
21 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
22 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
23 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
24 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
25 | Nor , again , would local authorities be prevented from continuing to build at something like the present rate — though ( as will presently be shown ) for different purposes . |
26 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
27 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
28 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
29 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
30 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |