Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 2 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 8 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 9 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 10 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 11 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 14 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 15 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 16 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |