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

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1 A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes .
2 you 're not looking at it in the same way at all .
3 While unemployment figures in Northern Ireland have been on the increase , they have not accelerated at anything like the rate in the usually prosperous south-east of England .
4 He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you .
5 ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says .
6 Speaking from London at the announcement of record profits for the Birkenhead-based firm , he said : ‘ We are not rushing at anything but the question must be asked what do we do with our cash balances .
7 I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now .
8 Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass .
9 He was still gazing at her across the warm fog of the coffee bar .
10 He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy .
11 Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting .
12 ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’
13 I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation .
14 Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs .
15 Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction .
16 Far more pertinently , the parallels with what is happening now scream at anyone with the slightest sense of history .
17 Vitor said , climbing out to frown at her across the bonnet .
18 Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden .
19 ‘ Do n't look at me through the eyes … ’
20 No you ca n't look at them at the moment .
21 She could n't look at him in the face .
22 This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now .
23 ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia .
24 ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit .
25 ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down .
26 Reaching across , he slammed the door again , then glared at her from the space of inches .
27 The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise .
28 ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue .
29 She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight .
30 ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’
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