Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 2 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 3 | Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh … |
| 4 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 5 | I look at the knackered tubes . |
| 6 | I look at the luminous hands of the clock . |
| 7 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 8 | I felt at the torn threads in my blouse and looked at the grazed skin underneath and shuddered , but I was all right and so was the tree . |
| 9 | I looked at the other windows in the house . |
| 10 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 11 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 12 | Telling my story , I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind . |
| 13 | I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside . |
| 14 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 15 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 16 | She gazed at the moonlit/sunlit clouds below her — desert , lakes , river-ribbons , an ocean . |
| 17 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 18 | I think it just gets too complicated when you look at the various contracts . |
| 19 | Orrell are top of the first division … but then again there are n't many easy matches to be had when you look at the other ties |
| 20 | And I would ask you to have regard to that erm when you look at the technical criteria which we 've spent the last couple of hours looking at . |
| 21 | and then you look at the normal lights |
| 22 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 23 | Well I think if you look at the main jobs in Britain , all the managers are male , and I think it 's , it 's gon na change when we do have females and males in all these erm , these jobs that are managing the main N H S , social work |
| 24 | I think they 're unfair questions to respond to erm if you look at the potential calls on the contingency budget in the forthcoming year they 're been outlined by the officers . |
| 25 | and if you look at the Scottish results |
| 26 | when you look at the Scottish results you do n't get many draws in the Scottish league |
| 27 | She glanced at the brief details on the card Jill handed to her before smiling at the man . |
| 28 | Between 1979 and 1982 , she worked at the Foreign Relations Office of the Chinese Writers ' Association . |
| 29 | She stared at the shifting colours and shapes , remote and isolated , hearing the voices and noise of music playing inside . |
| 30 | Breathing deeply , fighting sudden fresh tears , she stared at the whitewashed walls of the tiny , tidy yard . |