Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 2 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 3 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 4 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 5 | They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate . |
| 6 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 7 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 8 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 9 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 10 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |
| 11 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
| 12 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 13 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 14 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 15 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 16 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 17 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 18 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 19 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 20 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 21 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 24 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 25 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 26 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 27 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 28 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 29 | Now he drained it and squinted at her through the glass . |
| 30 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |