Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 2 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 3 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 4 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 5 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 6 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 7 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 8 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 9 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 10 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 11 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 12 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 13 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 14 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 15 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 16 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 17 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 18 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 19 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 20 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 21 | Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’ |
| 22 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 23 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 24 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 27 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 28 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 29 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 30 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |