Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stage hands grumbled at the furious pace they were expected to work . |
| 2 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 3 | Have you looked at the daily chart she fills in that records all those details ? ’ asked Tom . |
| 4 | She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited . |
| 5 | Only the violet shadows beneath her eyes , so out of place in her tanned and glowing face , hinted at the emotional upheaval she was enduring . |
| 6 | In fact towards the end of the book looking at the overall picture it seems that everyone else 's life ends happily in marriage apart from Pip 's , and him meeting Estella in the end completes this sort of feeling of his life not being complete.fulfilled . |
| 7 | By looking at the key rack it is easy to see , if the key is there , that the guest is out of the room or that the room is vacant . |
| 8 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 9 | Sitting by herself in the kitchen with coffee , looking at the golden forsythia she was aglow with health , energy , accomplishment . |
| 10 | Looking at the other titles I infer that mine is the only lecture on literature , and logically , perhaps , my title should be ‘ Literature as communication ’ . |
| 11 | Looking at the front panel it appears fairly basic until you realise that the seven rotary pots sited under the LCD display are double function editors . |
| 12 | And therefore when you 're looking at the nutritional value you need to be very aware of that . |
| 13 | Before next month 's Starting Block , try roaming around your hard disk , looking at the different files it contains . |
| 14 | When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future . |
| 15 | Look at the bare facts we 've not beaten the scum in the three season we 've been back up and god knows we 've had enough chances in that time . |
| 16 | Yes , Mr Gorbachev would say , but look at the capitalist misery it causes in places like Poland and eastern Germany . |
| 17 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 18 | and then I said oh look at the bloody heels you 've got on oh my god ca n't get in there |
| 19 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
| 20 | nations I think we do very little , I mean , we do a lot for charity but if you look our planet is dying as , you look at the green issue we are far behind so monarchy does n't help us there . |
| 21 | when you look at the Scottish results you do n't get many draws in the Scottish league |
| 22 | ‘ Look at the fine girl we have . |
| 23 | And then , look at the different types we have to deal with — and be polite to , no matter what we may be feeling inside ! |
| 24 | When we look at the open countryside it does n't really to my mind say a great deal about er what is what should be considered acceptable . |
| 25 | AT&T Co and Unix System Laboratories Inc want to be sure that no one that contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these past 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at UniForum ; all obscure names gratefully received . |
| 26 | AT&T and Unix System Labs want to be sure no one who contributed significantly to the advance of Unix these last 24 years is overlooked at the big bash they 're throwing at Uniforum ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Get someone to look at the new evidence you turned up . |
| 28 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 29 | ‘ If we were to look at the constitutional situation we may have to look at the position of the Princess Royal . |
| 30 | With the nervous worry comes the loneliness : ‘ The house is quiet as the grave ’ , and the fear of the future : ‘ Though we have registered we are told at the American consulate it may last [ take ] years until we get the possibility of emigrating , the quota being overcharged . ’ |