Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 3 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 4 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 5 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 6 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 7 | Things were getting interesting at last , Lacuna was dumbstruck , and no-one except her was looking at anything except the screens . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’ |
| 9 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 10 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 11 | Having established the ICAEW 's position in the listed market , we decided to extend our work to look at which of the bodies regulated the auditors of large unlisted organisations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 14 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 15 | These were mostly artificers , labourers or servants , many of course being taxed only on wages , as were many of those assessed at nil in the musters ; the status of any who were later taxed on wages is obvious , while those never assessed at all almost certainly included the unemployed and , probably , vagabonds and beggars . |
| 16 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 17 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 18 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 19 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 20 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
| 21 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
| 22 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 23 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 24 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 25 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
| 26 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 27 | He took his pipe out and lit it slowly , squinting at her through the puffs of blue smoke . |
| 28 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 29 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 30 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |