Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I peered at them round the end of the house .
2 Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them .
3 When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them .
4 I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it .
5 I looked at him over the roof .
6 When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him .
7 I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring
8 Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them .
9 ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’
10 Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know .
11 However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group .
12 Nobody looked at him from the windows .
13 He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother .
14 She beamed at him over the rim of her glass .
15 Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly .
16 She peered at him through the semi-darkness .
17 She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge .
18 She exploded at me in the hospital .
19 ‘ 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 .
20 But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers .
21 If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia .
22 So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture
23 You look at it in the dark ?
24 I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary
25 It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical .
26 But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent .
27 ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands .
28 She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell .
29 She waved at him from the door and went down to the street .
30 I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’
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