Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 7 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 12 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 15 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 24 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 25 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 26 | ready to thrust at her inside the door . |
| 27 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Vitor said , climbing out to frown at her across the bonnet . |
| 30 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |