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Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks .
2	I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley .
3	Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking .
4	Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke .
5	George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more .
6	People turned to stare at her in the street .
7	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 .
8	She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her .
9	David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end .
10	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 .
11	Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening .
12	‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’
13	She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse .
14	He turned to look at me across the studio .
15	Having established the ICAEW 's position in the listed market , we decided to extend our work to look at which of the bodies regulated the auditors of large unlisted organisations .
16	Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements .
17	Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror .
18	I ca n't bear to look at myself in a mirror : I know I look a mess most of the time .
19	That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’
20	She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror .
21	‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’
22	The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? "
23	The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board .
24	Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it .
25	You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty .
26	This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course .
27	Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally .
28	You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after .
29	As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case .
30	as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows .