Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look over at the posters on the wall . |
| 2 | I look up at the windows . |
| 3 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 4 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |
| 5 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 6 | I glanced up at the sails , down at the compass , then ahead to where the lighthouse loom arced powerfully through the night . |
| 7 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
| 8 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
| 9 | I looked round at the faces . |
| 10 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 11 | I slapped gently at the sides of her face , without much success , while Miss Hinkle produced a glass of water . |
| 12 | ‘ I fell apart at the seams — I was in tears all the time , and my doctor put me on pills . ’ |
| 13 | When Tucker caught himself shrugging apologetically at the parrots he knew he was out of his depth . |
| 14 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 15 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 16 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 17 | She peered intently at the tears in the garments . |
| 18 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
| 19 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 20 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 21 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 22 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 23 | If you look closely at the facades of these adjoining buildings you 'll see fine stone carvings of animals , vegetables and fruit . |
| 24 | If you look carefully at the pictures , you will see each of the four children more than once , but they do n't all appear in all the pictures . |
| 25 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 26 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 27 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 28 | She glanced round at the cats to see how much food would be needed . |
| 29 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
| 30 | She glanced back at the marquees , but there was no sign of Richard . |