Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ca n't be that time , ’ she said , bounding up , only to clutch at the table as her head started up again . |
| 2 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
| 3 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 4 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 5 | A French medic was climbing the grassy bank from the sunken road to look at the Officer as I got the prisoners out of the dug-out and back to their previous positions in the hollow . |
| 6 | Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending . |
| 7 | The lance shivered , the shaft splintering halfway down to the guard , and Hotspur hurled it from him , and reached a long arm to snatch at the bridle as he was swept past , and drag the terrified horse to its feet again . |
| 8 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |