Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 3 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 4 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 5 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that some problems can be solved with ease if only we can get to look at them in a different way . |
| 7 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 8 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 9 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 10 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 11 | This is the kind of frame from which Dorothy Heathcote often ( increasingly ) wants children to work , and this is why it often seems to be the case in her work that the pupils are not in role at all — they are merely required to look at something from a particular scientific perspective . |
| 12 | He has to look at everything from an international perspective . |
| 13 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 14 | To look at it on a comparable basis . |
| 15 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 16 | There are two distinct types of variation in the semantic contribution that a word form makes to different sentences — or , to look at it from a different point of view , two ways in which the sentential context of a word form may affect its semantic contribution to the sentence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 19 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 20 | In 1980 a series of events occurred which forced us to look at ourselves in a new and harsh light . |
| 21 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 22 | It is always exceedingly difficult to look at oneself within a familiar social setting without falling into conventional cliches . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Nor , again , would local authorities be prevented from continuing to build at something like the present rate — though ( as will presently be shown ) for different purposes . |