Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 2 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 3 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 4 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 5 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 6 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 7 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 10 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 11 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 16 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 17 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 21 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 22 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 23 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee . |
| 27 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
| 30 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |