Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pers pn] [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 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 7 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 13 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 14 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 15 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 20 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 26 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 27 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 28 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 29 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 30 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |