Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 2 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 3 | Mobuto climbed out slowly and turned to wave at the waiting photographers . |
| 4 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 5 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 6 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 7 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 8 | She liked to look at the dreadful toxins through the jewelled prison of their coloured glass bottles : ruby red , peridot green , indigo blue . |
| 9 | Normally I would have sounded like a tongue-tied half-wit , but that evening my response appeared to hint at the inexpressible depths and nuances of my infinitely complex relationship with the city , together with a gentle rebuke to a question which was either fatuous or unanswerable . |
| 10 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 11 | Benny had looked at the cream-coloured blouses and soft pink angora sweaters . |
| 12 | The new possibilities of sound had been suggested by the great success of that ‘ gabby ’ medium the radio which was now helping to give American actuality a new urgency and also by the Broadway stage where the great success of Hecht and MacArthur 's The Front Page had hinted at the dramatic possibilities of ordinary everyday dialogue . |
| 13 | Blood trickled down his calves where , while writing , he had clawed at the cracking patches on his legs . |
| 14 | Her skin seemed to glow , and she discovered she only had to smile at the male members of the staff and they were immediately more friendly . |
| 15 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 16 | Croatia and Slovenia proceeded during October with steps to dissociate themselves from federal Yugoslav arrangements , refusing to extend beyond Oct. 7 the three-month moratoriums on implementing their independence declarations to which both had agreed at the Brioni talks in July [ see p. 38374 ] . |
| 17 | The verderers had arrived at the tumbled stones soon after the moon rose . |
| 18 | Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge . |
| 19 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 20 | Shrugging regretfully , she continued to gaze at the various treasures displayed . |
| 21 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 22 | Their Lordships refused to look at the internal workings of Parliament stating that if errors had occurred in the procedure for passing legislation then it was for Parliament alone to correct them . |
| 23 | Corbett just sat staring at the wet walls : the cell was narrow and fetid , a grating high in the wall gave a little air and light . |
| 24 | Look , he wanted to shout at the tumbling rooks , here is the only certain reality . |