Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 2 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 3 | Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh … |
| 4 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 5 | I look at the knackered tubes . |
| 6 | I look at the luminous hands of the clock . |
| 7 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 8 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 9 | Someone calling at The Two Pheasants , I suppose , or at the Shoosmiths . ’ |
| 10 | When I arrive at the Three Pigeons , Crilly twirls me about to look at me . |
| 11 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 12 | I looked at the two men . |
| 13 | So I looked at the two men again . |
| 14 | I looked at the other windows in the house . |
| 15 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 16 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 17 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 18 | Telling my story , I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind . |
| 19 | I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside . |
| 20 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 21 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 22 | The therapeutic objective of holding the mirror up to nature and confronting people with themselves is further explored in the final section of the book , which looks at the wider implications of drama in secure settings and its role in therapy . |
| 23 | Erm it , and as they sa , and as she says this tends to be er a description of a gypsy camps campsite which looks at the external surroundings of the caravans , but it does n't actually look inside the caravan . |
| 24 | In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 26 | But how can the machine know the right order in which to look at the various possibilities ? |
| 27 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 28 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 29 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 30 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |