Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 2 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 3 | Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending . |
| 4 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 5 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 6 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 7 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |