Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
7 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
8 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
12 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
13 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |