Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks at the BBC with a cold outsider 's eye , makes the right sort of noises ( stressing ‘ impartiality ’ , lambasting sloppy Lime Grove journalism ) and is unafraid to alter or cancel potentially controversial programmes . |
| 2 | She looks at the collection with a view to its bearing on garden history . |
| 3 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 4 | Dotty wore a sleeveless dress of black velvet caught at the hip with a diamanté buckle . |
| 5 | A copy of the morning paper was lying on his tooled leather desk top ; he pushed it across to Tom , stabbing at the story with a manicured index finger . |
| 6 | She screwed the cap back on her lipstick case , rolled her lips together , dabbed at the corners with a violet tissue , then snapped shut the mirror-case and zipped up all the contents of her cosmetic-bag . |
| 7 | Rain dabbed at the blood with a wad of paper handkerchiefs . |
| 8 | Sybil picked up the telephone and dabbed at the buttons with a well-scrubbed finger . |
| 9 | Made up in a bouquet of floral-design remnants , they are secured at the corners with a bow . |
| 10 | Such dresses may have been worn over a sleeved under-dress which generally received no fastenings , with some exceptions which were secured at the wrist with a clasp which may carry evidence of braid ( Crowfoot 1952 ) . |
| 11 | Something I can not place , something small , like looking at a tapestry with a loose thread . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That as a member of a large merchant-banking family , with some ties to the Soviet Union , you will be over there looking at the country with a view to future investment opportunities . |
| 13 | Andrée stood in the round room looking at the books with a mixture of curiosity and distaste . |
| 14 | She never arrives at a class with a set plan . |
| 15 | He poked at the spaghetti with a knife , separating the congealed orange-and-white mess . |
| 16 | If your cabinets seem to be constantly overcrowded , open up all the doors and look at the contents with a critical eye . |
| 17 | But one Moscow designer , at least , has been able to look at the familiar with a fresh eye and use the symbols of Soviet power with wit and imagination . |
| 18 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 19 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 20 | Salina arrived at the clinic with a grossly swollen foot which had to be lanced on the spot . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to run competitions offering a free T-shirt to the first person who arrived at the station with a burger and chips . |
| 22 | Similarly , for immunostained cells , absolute populations were determined with reference to a similar standard reference area of muscularis mucosae ( 10 µm ) : however , these counts were performed at the microscope with a calibrated ocular graticule aligned parallel to the muscularis mucosae . |
| 23 | More than £200 was raised at the event with a cake stall , and raffle and sale of hospice merchandise . |
| 24 | It is certainly the only time I have played at a ground with a hovercraft as a pavilion . |
| 25 | with my bill , bill , bill he knocked at the door with a rat a tat |
| 26 | He wears a one-piece cashmere shroud tied at the waist with a twisted silken cord and with rosettes on either side of the turned-down collar . |
| 27 | The Navigator 's large eyes assessed her gown of iridescent Sirian silk tied at the waist with a casual scarlet sash , her silverfur stole , her curly-toed slippers . |
| 28 | He was wearing a pair of crumpled pyjama trousers , tied at the waist with a white cord . |
| 29 | He took with him a towel and a bag , tied at the neck with a drawstring , a bag that bulged with jars and bottles , containing shampoos and pomades and lotions . |
| 30 | Mother and baby lie side by side : Mrs Williams , represented as wearing day-clothes , is propped up on her right elbow , staring adoringly at her deceased infant ; the latter is wrapped in a fine close-fitting linen shroud , drawn up over the feet rather than under , and tied at the knees with a fairly broad linen band . |