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 used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
9 | When I arrive at the Three Pigeons , Crilly twirls me about to look at me . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I looked at the two men . |
12 | So I looked at the two men again . |
13 | I looked at the other windows in the house . |
14 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
15 | 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 ! |
16 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
17 | Telling my story , I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind . |
18 | I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside . |
19 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
20 | ‘ 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She gazed at the moonlit/sunlit clouds below her — desert , lakes , river-ribbons , an ocean . |
23 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
24 | She looks at the three hands with detachment , as if they are a still life . |
25 | ‘ Why did you look at the two letters together ? ’ he asked . |
26 | I think what is interesting , though , is that if you look at the two amendments which are on the audit paper , one deals with speculation er proposed by the Tories . |
27 | I think it just gets too complicated when you look at the various contracts . |
28 | 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 |
29 | 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 . |
30 | and then you look at the normal lights |