Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 32 | You look at me in a way that is familiar . |
| 33 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 34 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 35 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
| 36 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 37 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 38 | If you look at it in a certain way , right , it shows your ignorance , I mean you 're over in England , right , for so long — I mean to say you should know what to chat in front of certain people , right ? |
| 39 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 40 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 41 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 42 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 43 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 44 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 45 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 46 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 47 | She frowned at him for a moment ; then her brow cleared . |
| 48 | She stares at me for a moment in her shocked haze of light . |
| 49 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 50 | Instead she glanced at him with a blithe smile which she hoped disguised her true feelings , and carried on inking in colour . |
| 51 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 52 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 53 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 54 | She blinked at me for a minute or two and then said , ‘ Aliens ! ’ |
| 55 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 56 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 57 | She stared at him with a stiff , expressionless face . |
| 58 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 59 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 60 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |