Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’
2 He thinks we 'll look at it in a different light .
3 So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other .
4 Erm well yours is different so we 'll look at yours in a minute .
5 You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows .
6 You might get at it without the er where 's the instruction ?
7 Let's look at it from a different angle ; if you could change anything about your life , what would you change ? ’
8 ‘ I could look at you across a room full of people , and still make you weak with longing . ’
9 The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye .
10 They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ?
11 You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag .
12 ‘ We may guess at something like a good reason for the terrible earthquakes in South America , ’ observed Kingsley .
13 But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag .
14 ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . )
15 I would look at myself in the mirror , check out the grey hairs , trace the emerging lines and fading lip line and ask myself , ‘ Why ? ’
16 The butchers would open at one in the morning .
17 ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said .
18 Boxing clever : Chris Eubank ( left ) copes with all that challenger , Lindell Holmes , can throw at him during a successful WBO title defence at Olympia
19 ‘ But at the end of the day , I can look at myself in the mirror and say I gave 100 per cent .
20 You think I can look at myself in the morning with a damn great blue glass spike in my skull yelling at me , ‘ Hey , you 're a freak ’ ?
21 One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror .
22 okay I mean y y you can look at it from a point of view that Mao is a real revolutionary and that 's what he wants
23 Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’
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